Armed Conflict

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Washington’s New Drone Sales Policy Could Export US-Style Drone War

This week, the United States released a new policy for the export of US-made drones. The policy conditions any drone sale on a pledge by the foreign buyer government that it will…
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The Fine Line Between Collective Self-Defense and Intervention by Invitation: Reflections on the Use of Force against ‘IS’ in Syria

Bashar and Asma al-Assad. Image credit: Ricardo Stuckert/ABr via Wikimedia Commons. [Editor’s Note from Ryan Goodman: With the U.S. Congress turning its attention to an…
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Challenging the Guantánamo Narrative: “Too Dangerous to Transfer”

This post is the latest installment of our Monday Reflections feature in which a different Just Security editor takes an in-depth look at the big stories from the previous…
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“Gag order” on Military Commission defendants substantially lifted

Very important and welcome news from Guantánamo Bay:  The defendants in military commissions cases and their counsel are now free to discuss their interrogations and conditions…
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A comprehensive summary of GTMO policy, practices and prospects

It’s all here in the prepared testimony of Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Brian McKeon before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday morning.  Most…
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Authorization vs. Regulation of Detention: What Serdar Mohammed v. MoD Got Right and Wrong

The UK Court of Appeal will soon hear the appeal in Serdar Mohammed v. Ministry of Defense, a highly important case in which the UK High Court held that the long-term detention…
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UK Court of Appeal to assess legality of detentions in Afghanistan

Next week, the United Kingdom Court of Appeal will begin to hear arguments in the government’s appeal against the High Court ruling in Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defense.…
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Military Commissions and Unintended Constitutional Consequences

Over at Lawfare, I have a post up this morning providing a preview of next Tuesday’s oral argument in the D.C. Circuit in In re al-Nashiri–a mandamus action challenging…
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Did the U.S.-Israeli killing of Mughniyah violate international law?

Over the weekend, The Washington Post reported on a joint U.S.-Israeli operation that killed Imad Mughniyah—Hezbollah’s reported chief of international operations—on the…
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International Cyber Governance: Engagement Without Agreement?

The following post is the latest installment of  our Monday Reflections feature in which a different Just Security editor takes an in-depth look at the big stories from the…
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One Way Sri Lanka Can Shield its ex-Defense Secretary from a U.S. Criminal Prosecution

Last week, Sri Lanka’s Justice Deputy Minister responded to an Op-Ed that I published in the New York Times, in which I described reasons that the United States can and should…
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Assad: Willing to risk direct confrontation with U.S. over moderate rebels—and stronger opposition to US airstrikes

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with Foreign Affairs’ Jonathan Tepperman provides several important nuggets for international lawyers and policymakers to analyze.…
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