Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following provocative thoughts on the Newtown shootings and layered physica...

From the shameless self-promotion department, this: last week Brookings published my recent paper on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems---drones---into our national airspace. The piece identif...

This would certainly have national security implications. The White House promises to respond to online petitions that receive 25,000 signatures. This one has more than 29,000: Secure resources and fun...

Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v.

As you may have read by now (reports from the New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good),  that the WCIT conference has ended in disarray.  The United States and a number of other Western countr...

The Wall Street Journal has an article today, titled “U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens.”  It reports: The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to exam...

The Times has an op-ed today on the WCIT conference in Dubai.  Who knows, maybe this is one Ben will agree with.

The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security has released audio recordings of its recent conference in Washington.

It's a rather useful, CRS-like report, entitled "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones): An Introduction." It opens: This note provides an introduction to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by the UK ...

That is the title of Eric Posner’s essay in Slate reacting to Jeh Johnson’s Oxford speech.   The first part of the piece roughly tracks some of the points I made last week, but then Eric widens the lens:...

This Lawfare post serves as a running list of links to articles, documents, or other materials related to the regulation and legal review of autonomous weapons systems (or increasingly automated weapons ...

As Ritika already noted, George Will has a column in today's Washington Post about drones and targeted killing. In it, he poses a question lots of people ask about drone strikes and that warrants a momen...