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I met Matthew Atkins, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force, recently at the Hoover Institution, where he is currently a military fellow. Lt. Col. Atkins has worked in targeting and intelligence a fair b...
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Examples of religious strife are numerous in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet more frequently, religious communities have lived side-by-side, if not always arm-in-arm. In the Middle East today, howev...
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Naz Modirzadeh (Senior Fellow at the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project) has a paper in the latest issue of the Harvard National Security Journal that (i) posits the existence of distin...
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Last week PBS 'Frontline' released a short documentary on life under the Kim Jong Un regime (trailer below). Using illegal footage provided by an undercover network of journalists and North Koreans as a ...
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It's been a busy day in cyber-related news. The last entry (for now) is the announcement in Davos of the creation of a Global Commission on Internet Governance. As readers of this blog know, I think th...
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The estimable Gregory Johnsen has a lengthy article in Buzzfeed about the history of the AUMF. Entitled "60 Words and War Without End: The Untold Story of the Most Dangerous Sentence in U.S. History," th...
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Today is the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s executive order directing the closure of Guantanamo within one year.
I welcomed the President’s order at the time, but I commented on NPR and elsewher...
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The revolt against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (greater Syria), usually referred to by its acronym ISIS, is the latest dramatic turn in the Syrian civil war. In the last few weeks, a range of r...
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Just in case you want to read something not about reforms to NSA surveillance: here's the opinion from the D.C. Circuit in Al-Janko v. Gates.
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Hmmmm. Here's a very interesting few paragraphs from the Wall Street Journal:
The president's speech, to be delivered at the Justice Department, caps a process that was similar to the one he undertook on...
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Last fall, during the debate on airstrikes in Syria, commentators argued that the United States needed to act in order to preserve the credibility of American threats.
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Your Lawfare team is ready with pen and paper, and bated breath, to hear oral arguments in the habeas-related appeal of Afghan detainee Obaydullah before the three-judge panel of D.C. Circuit Court of Ap...
