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The “going dark” debate continued on Lawfare this week. Paul provided us with a guest post from Nicholas Weaver of the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley, who argued that the iPhone—”pe...
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I am happy to report the results of the 2015 “Bobby R. Inman Award” competition for student research and writing on intelligence, sponsored by the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas...
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The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS
By Michael Morell
Twelve/The Hachette Group (2015)
Reviewed by Gabriel Schoenfeld
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Last Friday at the stroke of midnight, India and Bangladesh exchanged 50,000 people and more than 160 pockets of land as part of a major land boundary agreement (LBA) approved by the Indian parliament in...
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Using counterterrorism as a lens for seeing the Middle East, as the Obama administration so often does, has helped the United States achieve several important successes against the Al Qaeda core and avoi...
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This week’s Lawfare Podcast features interviews from the Aspen Security Forum with—among others—FBI Director James Comey, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, and NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers.
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It has been quite common in the last decade, when difficult legal questions were raised about individual rights and judicial review—the rights, for example, of noncitizen military detainees at Guantanamo...
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I posted a first batch last week. Here are the rest of the videos from this year's Aspen Security Forum.
A Look Into SOCOM
Joseph Votel, Commander, US Special Operations Command
Moderator: Catherin...
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Guantanamo Diary
By Mohamedou Ould Slahi (edited by Larry Siems)
Published by Hatchette Book Group (2015)
Reviewed by Zoe Bedell
It's rare that quotes on the back of a book tell you anything genuinel...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Editor’s Note: Sanctions are increasingly America’s foreign policy instrument of first resort, promising success without the bloodshed that comes with military force. Iran’s willingness to cut a deal ove...
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Iran continued to dominate Lawfare this week in the wake of the nuclear deal. The U.N. Security Council voted in support of the deal on Monday, and Cody provided us with a link to the resolution.
