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e-Residency in Estonia, Part I: Wherein I Apply to Digitally Betray My Country
This week, I had the pleasure of hosting the third Hoover Book Soiree, which featured Edward Lucas of the Economist talking about his new book, Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security, and the Internet. (... -
The Administration Wants an ISIL AUMF to Prop Up Troop Morale
Secretary of Defense Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dunford testified Tuesday before the House Armed Services Committee. The news was that JSOC will play a bigger role against ISIL in ... -
Unprivileged Participant in Hostilities in Afghanistan Gets Life Sentence in US Court
The saga of Irek Hamidullin has come to a close, more or less, with a life sentence (plus 30 years) in a Virginia courtroom today. You may recall the name: Hamidullin was once a Russian tank commander, ... -
Hot Commodities: A Tale of Two Extremes
This year droughts crippled California and heat waves claimed the lives of hundreds in India and Pakistan. Major flooding caught Texas by surprise and Yemen was hit, not once but twice, by deadly cyclone... -
China Claims OPM Hack was "Criminal"; Arrests Hackers It Says were Responsible
Buried in this morning's article covering the ongoing U.S.-China cybersecurity talks, Chinese state-owned media outlet Xinhua News said that an investigation had determined that the hack of the Office of... -
Trucker’s Hitch: Targeting ISIL Oil Transport Trucks and the Need for Advanced Warnings
In this comment, I would like to offer some thoughts in response to Butch Bracknell’s recent post on the targeting of ISIL oil transport trucks by the US in eastern Syria. -
UK's Parliament Debates What the UN Security Council Said
The UK Parliament is in the midst of a tumultuous debate over whether British forces should participate in airstrikes on Syrian territory. Thus far, the debate has featured frequent calls for Prime Minis... -
Jihadology Podcast: The History, Legacy, and Relevance of Algerian Jihadism Today
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck comes on the show to talk about jihadism in Algeria. Some of the topics covered include: -
President Obama's NDAA Signing Statement on Guantanamo
On Wednesday, November 25th, President Barack Obama signed the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act into law. In addition to the added and renewed restrictions (sections 1031 and 1032) on the presid... -
Is Israel Going Dark?
Today's fascinating piece by Matthew Waxman and Doron Hindin, "How Does Israel Regulate Encryption?," raises a number of questions in my mind, two of which I put out to readers by way of soliciting infor... -
How Does Israel Regulate Encryption?
Recent terrorist attacks and resulting questions about the limits of surveillance have rekindled debate about how governments should deal with the challenges of powerful, commercially available encryptio... -
Warnings to Civilians Directly Participating in Hostilities: Legal Imperative or Ethics-based Policy?
American and allied forces efforts in the fight against ISIL have recently focused on disrupting the terrorist group’s primary source of revenue: oil production and transportation. The New York Times re...
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