Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt report: President Obama decided in recent weeks to authorize a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures A...

The week before Thanksgiving features a few Congressional hearings of note for the Lawfare readership. Tomorrow at 10:00 AM, there is a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ways of  "cou...

I am (as I have previously noted) no expert on climate change.  But reading the text of the much-vaunted U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change makes me think there is a large gap between how th...

Twenty years ago, Adam Roberts made the following observation in his essay, "Land Warfare: From Hague to Nuremberg," in The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (1994, pp. 116-139): T...

Those of you interested in the organization of the Intelligence Community may recall a major initiative launched by the Defense Intelligence Agency, in 2012, to expand the size and focus of its HUMINT co...

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I think I am unusual among former government officials in arguing that the publication of national security secrets can promote democracy and good government.  Such publications are often costly, sometim...

Speaking of National Security Letter (NSL) challenges: tomorrow morning Judges Ikuta, N. Randy Smith and Murguia of the Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in In re National Security Letter, Under Seal...