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Several years ago, in a prescient op-ed in the Washington Post, our colleague John Bellinger argued that the September 2001 AUMF was an increasingly poor fit for the evolving threats facing the United St...
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The following is a guest-post from Geoff Corn, Laurie Blank, Christopher Jenks, and Eric Talbot Jensen, responding to Ryan Goodman's recent Slate article (building on his new European Journal of Internat...
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According to the FAA, you can't fly the Parrot AR Drone 2.0 in the D.C. Flight Restricted Zone.
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I noted last week than in his answer to the question whether the Obama administration could “carry out drone strikes inside the United States,” John Brennan gave this non-response: “This Administration h...
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The House Judiciary Committee has released the witness list for its coming, February 27 hearing on "Drones and the War On Terror: When Can the U.S. Target Alleged American Terrorists Overseas?" Careful L...
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A few weeks ago, Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch had a thoughtful and serious---if sometimes playful---exchange with Matt, Ken, and me over fully autonomous weapons systems. But there seems to be an...
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Yesterday, the AP released an English translation of what appears to be a 2011 Al Qaeda tip sheet. (AP journalists evidently found the document in Timbuktu.) Its author, AQAP senior commander Abdullah ...
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Chicago lawyer Pejman Yousefzadeh writes in, at my request, with the following thoughts on teaching students to counter cyber threats using the ancient strategic game of Go. Pejman, who writes a very int...
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For those who can't get in to the Supreme Court oral argument in Shelby County v. Holder, and who aren't otherwise enticed by the Journal of National Security Law & Policy's inaugural symposium, "Swimmin...
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Yesterday, as I noted in today’s news roundup, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released its annual report on civilian casualties (defined as both direct and indirect deaths and injur...
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Paul and Ritika have already linked to the Mandiant report yesterday on the Chinese People's Liberation Army cyber espionage group known as Unit 61398. It's a very impressive document. Here is the execu...
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As the co-creator of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown and the publisher (though not the baker) of this drone strike cake, I should perhaps check myself before cringing at other people's drone humor. But I can...
