Department of Defense (DoD)

The law of armed conflict is not suited to provide the legal clarity the public desires immediately following attacks that kill civilians.

A timeline that chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

Host Ryan Goodman is joined by an expert panel to discuss whether the United States has violated the law of armed conflict in its war against Iran.

Congress should establish a bipartisan commission to investigate errors in going to war with Iran and how the war has been waged.

On the role of U.S. military leaders in addressing legal constraints and strategic questions.

Congress should build a durable private-public standing forum in the next National Defense Authorization Act.

Anthropic v. Department of War reveals why courts must distinguish genuine national security judgments from pretextual ones and how to do it.

The Pentagon's push to integrate AI into weapons systems exposes a critical gap: no one can agree on what "autonomous weapons" means.

The use of LLMs for foreign intelligence surveillance erodes the rules put in place to safeguard Americans' civil liberties.

The Pentagon’s new deals to deploy commercial LLMs on its classified networks provide it with a powerful surveillance capability that could be turned on Americans.

New data shows how mass firings, loyalist replacements, and pressure tactics are turning U.S. immigration courts into a deportation enforcement arm.

Federal law specifies that involuntary mobilization is to be used only to provide military forces for war or national emergencies.