Nobody in Washington ever got rich making predictions about the political process.  Nevertheless, I will go out on a limb and predict that at some point in the coming debate over the Senate cybersecurity...

I'm pleased to announce that Paul Rosenzweig will be guest blogging for Lawfare while Congress considers the cybersecurity legislation that is now headed for the Senate floor. Paul has a great deal of ex...

Riddle me this: At what point does official acknowledgment of a covert action become so strong that it can no longer be justified as a covert action--which is statutorily defined as action in which the r...

So amidst all of the gridlock in Congress and the presidential campaigning, there is actually a pretty good chance that Congress might get something significant and forward-looking done this year. The is...

Daniel Klaidman at Newsweek, whose forthcoming book on the Obama Administration's counterterrorism policies promises to be must-read material, reports that the decision has been made to go public with so...

With Anwar al-Awlaki dead, one hears relatively little these days regarding the progress of events in Yemen in relation to AQAP and U.S.

As drone aircraft become commonplace in civilian settings - everything from police surveillance to environmental groups tracking whaling vessels to hobbyists and much, much more - and as they become more...

Adam Segal at CFR, the person from whom I learn most about China and cybersecurity (here is a sampling of his posts), has a post that links to a China Defense Daily article on why Chinese experts think t...

The Cato Institute, in its monthly Cato Unbound online magazine, is this month featuring a debate on drones to which Ritika and I have contributed an essay. The lead essay by David Cortright of Notre Dam...

The headline news from this Congressional Research Service report (which comes courtesy of Wired's Danger Room, in a very handy article by Spencer Ackerman) is that, today, nearly one in three US warplan...

Lawfare readers who followed our coverage and analysis of the al-Aulaqi drone strike last fall (archived here) may be interested to see the UK House of Commons Library’s recently released research briefi...