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35 Lawmakers Pen Bipartisan Letter Calling for ISIS AUMF
On Friday, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers sent Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) a letter calling for him to schedule a vote on a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against the Islamic ... -
The Unintended Consequences of Media Crackdowns in the Middle East and North Africa
Editor’s Note: The hopes for democracy in the Middle East that flourished after the Arab Spring are now gone. Hope for positive change, however, rests on many of democracy's building blocks, such as the ... -
The Iran Deal is on the President (and Those Who Supported it in Congress)
“Anyone who hoped that Iran’s nuclear agreement with the United States and other powers portended a new era of openness with the West has been jolted with a series of increasingly rude awakenings over th... -
A Correction, A Reiteration, and a Response on a Shaker Aamer
Wherein I eat crow, I double down on part of my criticism of the New York Times editorial page, and Shaker Aamer's lawyer responds to my post. -
An Answer to the Innocent Passage Mystery?
In yesterday’s post, we asked “What did the Navy do in the South China Sea?” That wasn’t a rhetorical question. The Department of Defense hadn’t yet clearly explained what the USS Lassen did during its... -
Water Wars: A Week of FON Fallout
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Hot Commodities: When the Lights Go Out in the City
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What Did The Navy Do In the South China Sea?
After the U.S.S. Lassen’s freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the Spratly Islands last week, we wrote that the Lassen and the accompanying P-8 Poseidon aircraft appeared to have conducted normal m... -
The US Navy’s “Innocent Passage” In the South China Sea May Have Actually Strengthened China’s Sketchy Territorial Claims
As David Bosco hinted in his insightful Lawfare post from yesterday on the US-China showdown in the South China Sea, it turns out that the much-heralded U.S. “freedom of navigation operation” (FONOP) las... -
What Effect Could Chinese Military Reorganization have on the Recent US-China Cyber Agreement?
At the end of September, the United States and China reached an agreement that promising they would not engage in or support cyber espionage activity aimed at providing competitive advantage to commercia... -
For Sale in Moscow: "Support Assad" Shirts
An alert reader in Moscow just sent us this photograph of a t-shirt for sale in the Russian capital. It says, "Support Assad," along with what appears to be an aerial bombing picture. The bottom left say... -
My Putin Martial Arts Challenge on CBC and NPR
WBUR's "Here & Now" show on my martial arts challenge to Vladimir Putin: The Canadian broadcasting company ran this interview several days ago on the subject.
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