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Metadata+ and the Anxiety of Drone Warfare
If you own an iPhone and are one of the users of the drone-tracking app “Metadata+," you were greeted on Sunday morning with an alert that Apple had removed your app from its online store. -
Legislature Approves New Syria AUMF
...the Russian legislature, that is. Alongside the Kremlin's newly-minted air campaign against ISIS in Syria (or against forces other than ISIS, as the case may be) comes news that the Russian parliame... -
Jihadology Podcast: Don't Call It a Comeback, AQAP's Been Here for Years
Katherine Zimmerman comes on the show to talk AQAP. Some of the topics covered include: AQAP since the death of Awlaqi and their withdrawal from territory in southern Yemen in 2012 The effect of the ... -
The U.S. Military and Due Process in Afghanistan
In August, Fox News reported that two Army soldiers, Captain Daniel Quinn and Sergeant First Class Charles Martland, faced repercussions for allegedly beating up an Afghan police commander accused of rap... -
China's Cyber-Commitments and Congressional Oversight: A Suggestion
Last week's meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Obama produced a significant bilateral statement on cybersecurity spying: "The United States and China agree that neither country’s gov... -
Xi On the Global Stage: The Costs of Leadership
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Correction/Update: China Did Accept the American Formulation in the Cyber Deal
On Friday I read the transcript of the translation of President’s Xi’s remarks with President Obama to leave a possible gap in what China and the United States agreed to in the announced cyber deal on Fr... -
Is Civil War Coming to Turkey?
Editor's Note: This article originally appears on Order from Chaos. Turkish politics are slipping deeper into a state of chaos, with important implications for U.S. policy in the Middle East—and especi... -
Is the U.S. drone program in Yemen working?
Editor’s Note: The U.S. drone program – as Lawfare readers well know – raises contentious policy issues as well as criticisms of its legality and morality. Many of these policy issues come to the fore in... -
The Unending Saga of Ukrainian Reforms
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The Lawfare Podcast: Gregory Johnsen Answers "What is a Houthi?"
On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Gregory Johnsen outlines the current state-of-play in Yemen. Johnsen, who is a writer-at-large for Buzzfeed News, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and an all-... -
What President Xi Actually Said About Online Theft of Intellectual Property
In my earlier post on the cybersecurity portions of the summit, I noted the importance of an authoritative public Chinese statement on the substance of the agreement between China and the United States. ...
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