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The NDAA: Congress’ Opportunity to Take First Steps Towards Closing Gitmo

The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan next year will mark a milestone on the path to ending the so-called “war on terror.”  But as a practical matter, what will…
Nov. 7, 2013
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Pakistan Test Fires Missile to Take Down Drones

It might have been easy to doubt the veracity of the Pakistan government’s public protestations against US drone strikes in light of secret agreements between the two governments…
Nov. 6, 2013
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Bond v. United States and a Plain Statement Rule

The old adage, “bad facts make bad law,” threatens to reassert itself in an especially damaging fashion in Bond v. United States, a case now before the Supreme Court in which…
Nov. 6, 2013
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Observations on the Oral Argument in Bond

In light of the current efforts of the United States to ensure that even Syria, a nonparty to the treaty, strictly complies with the prohibitions of the Chemical Weapons Convention–and…
Nov. 6, 2013
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Future of Gitmo to Take Center Stage Later This Month

With much attention in recent weeks focused on the NSA collection activities or the U.S. drone program, it can be easy to allow other important national security issues to become…
Nov. 1, 2013
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Report to the General Assembly on Armed Drones and the Right to Life (or drones should follow the law, not the other way around)

[Editorial note: Last week, the United Nations discussed two major reports on drones. Just Security’s coverage included posts by Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman (here, here), Kevin…
Oct. 31, 2013
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“The Juice Wasn’t Worth the Squeeze” in Kyrgyzstan Fuel Contracts

The Pentagon recently announced the end of its use of the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan for logistical support of the war in Afghanistan. The arrangement unraveled due to…
Oct. 31, 2013
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Belonging to a Party to a Non-International Armed Conflict: A Reply to Kevin Jon Heller [Updated]

In a recent post, I argued that an unexplored and independent legal basis exists for the US practice of targeting “associated forces” of al-Qaeda: the rules governing armed…
Oct. 30, 2013
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International Humanitarian Law v. International Human Rights

Note: December 19 “Early Edition” Readers – click here for John Sifton’s guest post, Torture Is Still on the Table. We apologize for the error in the link.…
Oct. 30, 2013
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“Ending the Forever War”: A Progress Report

This past May, President Obama gave an historic speech at the National Defense University framing his counterterrorism strategy.  In that speech, he committed himself to a concept…
Oct. 28, 2013
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A New War?: The United States Involvement in Yemen’s Internal Armed Conflict [Updated]

In an op-ed in the Guardian last week, I argued that the United States appears to have become militarily directly involved in fighting a domestic insurgency in Yemen as an ally…
Oct. 28, 2013
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Kenya in a Global Non-International Armed Conflict Linked to September 11?

A brief recently filed by the President of Kenya before the International Criminal Court makes a provocative claim: Kenya is involved “in a war with radical Islamist groups”…
Oct. 26, 2013
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