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Lawfare Daily: Joel Braunold on West Bank Violence and Israel’s New Lebanon Offensive
The latest episode in Joel Braunold and Scott Anderson's series on developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -
Syria: It Is Time to Complete the Work on Sanctions Relief
Sanctions dynamics and regulatory challenges must be tackled for the sake of Syrians. -
The Transatlantic Relationship You Knew Is Gone
NATO can be recast, not restored. -
The Europeanization of Deterrence
What Macron’s Ile Longue speech means for transatlantic nuclear strategy. -
The Strait of Hormuz and the Limits of Maritime Law
The legal regimes governing attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and economic warfare as an act of self-defense. -
Article I and the Major Questions Doctrine After Learning Resources
How the Court’s fractured tariff decision may reshape delegated executive authority well beyond trade—and why the future of the major questions doctrine remains far from settled. -
Rational Security: The “Take a Light Out of Crime” Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Natalie Orpett, and Ariane Tabatabai talked through the week’s big news in national security. -
ODNI Releases 2026 Threat Assessment
The report outlines the most critical threats to the United States over the coming year. -
The Hegseth Doctrine? Military-Academic De-coupling Competition
Pentagon cuts to military education at elite universities risk weakening U.S. technological innovation, officer development, and strategic competition with China. -
Two Illegal Biolabs Reveal Gaps in U.S. Biosecurity
The discovery of CCP-linked biolabs on American soil exposes major biosecurity gaps. Policymakers must act to improve oversight of biological research activity. -
The Situation: Meanwhile
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U.S. Submits Article 51 Letter on ‘Operation Epic Fury’ to UNSC
The letter claims the United States attacked Iran as a matter of “self-defense” and the “collective self-defense” of Israel.
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