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The Irresponsible Institutional Politics of an “Election Year”

This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…

Jan. 4, 2016 Steve Vladeck

Closing GTMO: “Why wasn’t there a clearly delineated strategy?”

It’s not even the most glaring error in Dina Temple-Raston’s review of Charlie Savage’s Power Wars, but this passage sure does stand out: While the issue of closing…

Jan. 3, 2016 Marty Lederman

Ten National Security Oversight Issues to Watch in 2016

This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…

Dec. 28, 2015 Andy Wright

What explains the three-year delay on the Slahi habeas petition?

As Ben Wittes notes over at Lawfare, last week Judge Royce Lamberth denied a motion by habeas petitioner Mohamedou Ould Slahi to require the Department of Defense to expedite…

Dec. 24, 2015 Marty Lederman

An unspecified (and unclear) debate about the Rules of Engagement in Syria

In a lead story today, the Washington Post reports that France, the U.K., and Iraqi commanders are all “chaf[ing] at” or “complain[ing] about” the United…

Dec. 23, 2015 Marty Lederman

Why the US Should Cooperate With Investigations Into the Hospital Bombing

On December 12, the United Nations released a “special report” on human rights abuses and international humanitarian law violations that recently occurred in Kunduz, Afghanistan.…

Dec. 23, 2015 Jonathan Horowitz

Serial Angst

I’m one of the many who loved the first season of Serial — the Peabody Award-winning podcast spun off from NPR’s This American Life. It wasn’t just that the case of Adnan…

Dec. 22, 2015 Steve Vladeck

War: What Is It Good For? — Revisiting Strategic Questions Congress Should Ask in Debating an ISIL AUMF

As I revisited the series of 20 questions I recommended Congress consider in September 2014 regarding US strategy to combat the threat posed by ISIL, I remembered the advice an…

Dec. 21, 2015 Charlie Martel

House Demolitions 2.0

As violence erupted in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories over the past several months, the Israeli government has returned to one of its most controversial practices…

Dec. 18, 2015 Eliav Lieblich

The Worst of the Worst? What al-Shamiri’s Case Tells Us About Gitmo Detainees

Earlier this month, the US government revealed that Guantánamo detainee Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri was a low-level fighter, not the al-Qaeda courier and trainer the government…

Dec. 17, 2015 Adam Jacobson

Human Shields: The Dialogue Continues

As avid readers of Just Security may recall, last summer Professor Adil Ahmad Haque and I engaged in an animated discussion about the new Defense Department Law of War Manual’s…

Dec. 16, 2015 Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Another Historic Moment in the Colombian Peace Process

Readers may be interested to note that yet another significant moment of agreement has occurred in the Colombian peace process. A historic breakthrough came yesterday in Havana…

Dec. 16, 2015 Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)

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