Hard National Security Choices
Support Saturday, January 18, 2020
Menu
Tags

Barack Obama

See All Tags

Latest in Barack Obama

Cybersecurity

What the National Counterintelligence and Security Center Really Said About Chinese Economic Espionage

Herb Lin   Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 8:02 AM

Defense News recently published a story describing a July report from the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) on “Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace.” The article presents the NCSC report as warning that the threat posed by Chinese industrial cyber theft to America’s long-term economic power continues to expand, despite the Obama-Xi agreemen

South China Sea

Assessing the South China Sea Arbitral Award after One Year: Why China Won and the U.S. is Losing

Julian Ku   Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 12:00 AM

A year ago today, an arbitral tribunal formed pursuant to the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea issued a blockbuster award finding much of China’s conduct in the South China Sea in violation of international law. As I detailed that day on this blog and elsewhere, the Philippines won about as big a legal victory as it could have expected. But as many of us also warned that day, a legal victory is not the same as an actual victory.

AUMF

The White House Releases a "Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks" on American Uses of Military Force

Benjamin Wittes   Mon, Dec 5, 2016, 2:54 PM

Last year, Kenneth Anderson and I published a book entitled, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law, which is a detailed analysis of the Obama Administration's national security law views, as seen through the lens of a body of speeches given by senior administration officials.

Politics & National Security

We Watched the State of the Union So You Don't Have To

Cody M. Poplin   Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 11:57 AM

We watched the State of the Union so you don’t have to.

With an eye towards the national security sections of the speech, we’ve selected the parts we think are most relevant to Lawfare readers, organizing them by subject matter. While you can read the President's full comments on those subjects below, here’s a brief summary:

Subscribe to Lawfare

Email • RSS • Kindle