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Senate Appropriations Bill Rejects Trump’s Efforts to Downsize State Department and USAID

Last week, the Senate Committee on Appropriations, chaired by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), approved a State & Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2018.…

Erik Prince’s ‘New Band of Flying Tigers’ is a Sequel We Don’t Need

It shouldn’t be too surprising that in his recent New York Times op-ed calling for an infusion of private contractors into Afghanistan, Erik Prince sidestepped any discussion…

South Sudan: The Crisis Continues

The humanitarian crisis in South Sudan continues to worsen with civilians growing increasingly desperate and conditions showing little sign of improvement. July saw the greatest…

Legal Questions About the Airstrike Against the ISIS “Happy Journeys” Convoy

This week American-led airstrikes deterred the advance of a convoy carrying a group of ISIS fighters and civilians as it traveled from Lebanon to an ISIS safe-haven in Syria. The…

What Can Stop the Next Black Hawk Down: Risks to Special Operation Forces in the Trump Era

(Editors’ note: This article first appeared as a three-part series. We are reproducing it here in full.) Twenty-four years ago this month, President Bill Clinton, a first-term…

Preventing the Next Black Hawk Down

(Editors’ note: This article is the third of a three-part series by the author on the Trump administration’s use of special operations. Read parts I and II here and here.)…

The Unstable Status Quo: The Trump Administration’s Approach to Special Operations

(Editors’ note: This article is the second of a three-part series by the author on the Trump administration’s use of special operations. Read part I here.) Donald Trump stormed…
Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee January 11, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Key U.S. Foreign Policy Positions—including Ambassador for War Crimes—Saved from Getting Axed

Just Security recently broke the story that the State Department was considering shuttering or downgrading certain functional offices and Senate-confirmed ambassadorships within…
A military officer walks from the entrance to Camp VI on June 25, 2013 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Proposed 2019 Start Date for 9/11 Trial Faces Skepticism from Gitmo Judge

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — The military commission proceeding against five detainees allegedly responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks is slowly inching…
Israeli soldiers patrol along the concrete separation barrier bordering Abu Dis, West Bank March 26, 2006 in East Jerusalem, Israel. A civilian walks by them.

An Update of the Israel-Palestine-International Criminal Court Timeline

A lot has happened before the International Criminal Court since we last reported on the Palestine and related situations. The timeline below picks up where my last timeline of…
Locks on $100 bill with an internet browser overlaid.

Protecting Financial Data in Cyberspace: Precedent for Further Progress on Cyber Norms?

Identifying the legal norms that apply in cyberspace remains highly challenging. The recent collapse of the 5th UN Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Developments in the Field…
The front of the International Criminal Court building.

New ICC Arrest Warrant Indirectly Implicates Libyan Warlord, a U.S. Citizen

As I wrote yesterday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced last week that it had issued a new arrest warrant for Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Werfalli, a militia leader…
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