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10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Reading Jameel Jaffer’s “The Drone Memos”

Jameel Jaffer’s new book, The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law, will be published on November 15, and hard copies will also be available at Just Security’s…

The Drone Memos—The Book

My new book, The Drone Memos, will be published on November 15.  It’s a collection of the most important legal and policy documents relating to the U.S. drone campaign, preceded…
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Technology and Autonomy in Warfare: A Consideration of the Issue by the US Defense Science Review Board

A new report from the Pentagon’s Defense Science Review Board (DSRB) provides a useful examination of the technical issues concerning the fielding of autonomous weapons. Unquestionably,…
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UK Government’s Response on Drone Strikes Policy Leaves British Parliament Wanting More

A heads-up to Just Security readers: The UK government has responded to the British Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) report on the use of drones for targeted…
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De Facto and De Jure Non-International Armed Conflicts: Is It Time to Topple Tadić?

When does violence between a state and non-state actor constitute an armed conflict and thus trigger the system of legal rules that apply in non-international armed conflict (NIAC)?…
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Are Drones Less Accurate than Piloted Aircraft?

Startling recent claims and evidence that armed drones are less accurate than piloted aircraft have prompted us to investigate the numbers behind them. We do so in a piece entitled,…
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Letter to the Editor: Suggestions for Just Security’s Questions to the Presidential Candidates

I like the idea of Just Security‘s listing questions for the presidential nominees. As you ran them again before last night’s debate, and presumably may run them at…
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Just Security’s Questions for Clinton and Trump

Given the importance of tonight’s prime-time debate between US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we’re again running our list of vital national…
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Weapon, Combatant, Child, Animal: They’re All Insufficient Analogies for Autonomous Weapon Systems

Autonomous weapon systems, that is, weapon systems capable of independently selecting and engaging targets, are usually portrayed in one of two ways. Either they are depicted as…
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The PPG Visualized, What the US Kill and Capture Bureaucracy Looks Like

This 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 ahead…
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Today’s Important Deadline in the ACLU’s Targeted-Killing Transparency Case

Today, more than three years after President Obama announced that he had issued a classified “Presidential Policy Guidance,” commonly known as the PPG, meant to govern the…
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Secret Law, Targeting, and the Problem of Standards: A Response to Dakota Rudesill

In his recent posts and an article, Dakota Rudesill tackles the phenomenon of secret law. Dakota persuasively describes a growing body secret law, which he defines as “legal…
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