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Jihadology Podcast: Jihadi Governance 101
Will McCants comes on the show to talk about jihadi governance. The conversation is based on a chapter in his new book The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State... -
President Obama Sends War Powers Letter to Congress Regarding 300 Troops Headed to Cameroon
Today, President Barack Obama sent a War Powers letter to Congress noting that as of October 12, 2015, approximately 90 U.S. Armed Forces personnel began deploying to Cameroon "with the consent of the Go... -
Ahead of the Game: Prosecuting Syrian Crimes in French Courts
The idea of European prosecutors investigating military activity in other parts of the world scares the pants off of many US and Israeli policymakers. But right now, anyway, one person who should be watc... -
Fall of the Brotherhood, Rise of the Salafis
Editor's Note: The 2013 coup in Egypt did not, as the story so often goes in the West, lead to the end of the Islamist role in Egyptian politics. Rather, it led the new regime to crack down on the Muslim... -
Water Wars: What the TPP Means for the PRC
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Forget the Great Game: Let's Protect Civilians in Syria
The other day, a young man named Mouhanad Abdulhamid Al Rifay took the oath of US citizenship. It was an emotional moment for his family of Syrian asylees, who came to this country a few years before the... -
Focus on Palestinian Rights, Not Palestinian State
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Jihadology Podcast: The Khurasan Group: Myth and Reality
Thomas Joscelyn comes on the show to talk about the so-called "Khurasan group." Some of the topics covered include: Why the group came into being and when its members arrived in Syria Who are the key... -
Russia’s Holy War in Syria
Russia’s intervention in Syria seems to have caught U.S. officials by surprise, although the build-up for it must have been going on for months and is unlikely to have been missed by intelligence agencie... -
Supreme Court Oral Argument in OBB Personenverkehr v. Sachs, a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Case
The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in OBB Personenverkehr v. Sachs. The case was brought by Carol Sachs, a California woman seriously injured while boarding a train in Austria. She sued the railw... -
General John F. Campbell Testifies on Afghanistan
General John F. Campbell, Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, testified before for the Senate Armed Services Committee on Military Operations in Afghanistan. You can watch the hearing here. -
On the (Legal) Irrelevance of Iran Sanctions Act Renewal
While the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) appears to have overcome the last major congressional hurdle to implementation, the latest quixotic attempt to tie sanctions relief to Iran’s paymen...
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