Guest Post: David Maxwell asks “Is Kim Playing Trump?”
This week’s guest post is from my friend Dave Maxwell, a retired Special Forces officer now a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) [see Dave’s info at the end...
This week’s guest post is from my friend Dave Maxwell, a retired Special Forces officer now a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) [see Dave’s info at the end...
Last week the President took some controversial actions in several military justice cases and – as is so often is the case these days – the press doesn’t get the story quite right. For...
When I was stationed at Korea’s Osan Air Base in the late 1970s, no one even imagined a day when an American president would be shaking hands with a North Korean leader. In fact, just...
Here’s the good news upfront: I believe the U.S. and Canadian security relationship will weather the recent spat. True, relations suffered a setback last week when the two countries’ trade dispute exploded into an...
Yesterday military forces of the U.S., France, and Great Britain struck targets involved in Syria’s chemical weapons program. As I’ve often said, any use of force carries serious risks of unintended consequences, but this...
Last Friday (Feb 24) Duke law grad Ambassador Nathan Sales, the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism, was the dinner speaker for LENS’ annual national security law conference (“Complexity and Security: The Role of the...
The recent shootdown of a Syrian Su-22 fighter-bomber by a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet is causing some consternation in the legal community because of the assumption that the action was taken solely to...
“Shortbursts” is a new Lawfire feature you will see occasionally, and it aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items. As April has been such a busy month, I...
Today I participated along with Human Rights Watch’s Sarah Margon on NPR’s Morning Edition in a segment (“Civilians in Mosul Remain Trapped”) hosted by Rachel Martin. We discussed the issue of civilian casualties in...
Over on Just Security I have a new article, “Why the Foreign Policy Sky is Not Falling,” which is in response to a recent essay by Michael Fuchs, who is a Senior Fellow at...