The other day, Wells drew my attention to what could be the single most excellently eccentric national security-oriented project currently ongoing on the web: It is called Clausewitz for Kids. I am appar...

Former Secretary of DHS, Michael Chertoff has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, concerning Google's subversion of Safari's security settings.  Here's the introduction: In the cyber age, privac...

I'm just going to link to it. There's some rhetoric I wouldn't use in here, but--as I said before and as Steve explained here--this is a provocative step the government has taken, and it shouldn't do thi...

Laurie Blank, professor at Emory Law School and director of its International Humanitarian Law Clinic, gives Lawfare the last in the series of guest comments on Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine ar...

Over at Forbes.com, the estimable Gregory McNeal has this article about a new Army manual on preventing harm to civilians.

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security has just released a new book, Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law which will, I'm sure, be of intere...

We will have two final posts in our discussion sparked by Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine article, The Drone Zone.  This one by Michael Lewis, a former Navy fighter pilot and now professor at Ohi...

An important news analysis piece from Scott Shane of the New York Times. I'm glad Shane took the time to lay this out. Though the point seems very obvious to me, it is decidedly non-obvious to many peopl...

Over at SCOTUSBlog, Lyle Denniston has a piece on the Esmail access to counsel issue I wrote about Wednesday. It opens: For years, the federal government — in two administrations — has taken the view tha...

Tom Junod wrote in with the following in response to Ben's earlier post: Point taken on the "lecture from the principal" criticism: you either like that or you don't, and you didn't.  But I don't think y...

I have now had time to read Tom Junod's lengthy essay in Esquire to which Ritika linked the other day. Entitled "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama," it combines the form of a reported essay with a di...

Continuing the discussion surrounding issues of personal risk and combat in relation to drone warfare (Anderson on Mazzetti, Corn, and Rona, we add this comment from Charles Dunlap, professor at Duke Uni...