From Weekend Edition, a very thoughtful and useful discussion with Greg McNeal on some of themes of his recent guest blogging on Lawfare:

We are excited to announce the launch of a project at which we have been hard at work for some time.

The British Royal United Services Institute has issued a report entitled "Hitting the Target? How New Capabilities are Shaping International Intervention." Here's how the organization describes the proje...

This is sure to satisfy your targeted-killing jonesing for the week: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a website launched by a company called Pitch Interactive, documents---quite stunningly in visual terms, if ...

Ritika linked yesterday to a new Gallup poll on public attitudes towards drone strikes. The results are not surprising, but they are interesting. Americans largely support drone strike against foreign te...

Philip Carter and Deborah Pearlstein have posted a thoughtful essay at Foreign Policy that emphasizes the utility of civilian criminal prosecution as a counterterrorism option.  I very much agree with th...

Ben has already noted that the United States and Afghahnistan struck a deal to resume the process of handing over the remnants of U.S.

Although most Supreme Court watchers are focused on the two gay marriage cases to be argued before the Court on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week (NB: I signed the brief submitted by former Republican o...

Over at the graphical Drawnward blog, Caitlin Fitz Gerald has figured out an interesting way of illustrating our increasingly polarized attitudes over drones. She typed "drones are" into Google and grabb...

The WSJ has a story (behind paywall, I think) about the CIA “expanding its role in the campaign against the Syrian regime by feeding intelligence to select rebel fighters to use against government forces...

As Ben and Gregory McNeal posted earlier, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights, Ben Emmerson, issued this statement on March 14 after a three-day visit to Pakistan, ...