Julian Barnes and Evan Perez have an interesting piece today in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that at least some military officers are increasingly concerned about the lack of a clear option for de...

As Raff notes, the Washington Post has an editorial this week drawing attention to the important case of Ali Mussa Daqduq, the Lebanese Hezbollah commander who entered Iraq to participate in the insurgen...

Scott Shane has an important story in the New York Times on the controversy over the number of civilian deaths caused by the CIA's drones program outside of Afghanistan. Shane reports that, The civilian ...

Paul Starobin, whose New York Times piece this weekend was the subject of these earlier thoughts, writes in with the following response: I agree with Benjamin Wittes that there is an important, even a vi...

U.S. involvement in Mexico's struggle against violent drug-trafficking organizations has deepened recently, according to Ginger Thompson's piece in the New York Times today: When violence spiked last yea...

Paul Starobin has a piece in the New York Times pondering the flip-flop of Harold Koh on war powers: During the Bush administration, he was legendary for his piercing criticisms of “executive muscle flex...

I've written a lot over the years about the way law responds to changing practical phenomena such as the emergence of non-state actors as a strategic threat, ala al Qaeda, as have many others.  This vein...

There are few topics more slippery--and more emblematic of the current age--than the intersection of transnational organized crime, narcotics, illicit arms, and violent non-state actors.  On that front, ...

Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Joscelyn has a response to Bobby and my earlier response to his response to our responses (here and here) to his piece on Matthew Olsen.

Several House committee chairs have sent this letter regarding the Warsame case to President Obama.

A new Congressional Research Service report reviews provisions in the competing versions of the National Defense Authorization Act regarding detainee affairs. Here is a summary of the report's findings: ...

A quick thought in response to the very interesting exchange underway between Ben and Kevin (the most recent contribution to it is here).  In an update to an earlier post, Kevin writes: Ben is quite righ...