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Editor’s Note: The United States and its allies outsource most of their counterterrorism. Allies like Egypt and Jordan and frenemies like Pakistan do much of the heavy lifting, using their armies and int...
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On Monday, Ben
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A U.S. airstrike in Libya conducted Sunday may have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a former al Qaeda leader responsible for the 2013 seizure of an Algerian gas plant that resulted in the deaths of 38 hostages.
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Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s latest victories in Iraq have been met by teeth-gnashing in Iraq and hand-wringing in Washington. U.S. military officials expressed disgust and disappointment with the ...
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On Monday, Lawfare readers awoke to find the new and improved Lawfare site. Bobby, Jack, and Ben introduced the site, and Ben announced the beginning of Omphalos, a Lawfare subsidiary site devoted to int...
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The Hoover Institution's D.C. office and Lawfare are having a reception for our recent book, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law (Hoover Institution Press Publ...
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Willy Stern has a very interesting essay at the Weekly Standard about “Dabla,” the Israeli Defense Force’s elite operational lawyers.
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The Harvard National Security Journal’s spring issue, published last week, may be of interest to readers of Lawfare. It has four major articles. Antonia Chayes previews her forthcoming book, Borderles...
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Mike Schmitt is well-known to many, probably most, regular readers of Lawfare—eminent and prolific scholar of the law of armed conflict (or international humanitarian law); driving force behind the Talli...
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53 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law No. 3, p. 507 (2015). Available on SSRN.
The status of covert activities by a government in international law is an under-discussed topic in legal scholarship, e...
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