In this feature, Brookings senior fellow and terrorism expert Daniel Byman and deputy foreign policy editor Dana Stuster curate a weekly essay on foreign and military affairs of interest to national security legal practitioners and scholars. Although not specifically dealing with legal matters, the feature offers context and perspective to many of the debates that go on at the site regularly. Lawfare has always conceived of national security law broadly, because to practice it well, one needs to draw on a diversity of expertise in technical fields like communications technologies, robotics and economics. With The Foreign Policy Essay, Dan and Dana provide us with a window into the worlds of strategy, military operations, geopolitics, and whatever else grabs their interest on any given week.
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The talks between the regional rivals have yielded little progress because of the countries' disparate goals and regional positions.
The protection that terrorist sanctuaries afford allow leaders to cement their ideologies and preferred tactics in their groups.
Supporting the peace process in Mindanao will help shift Manila’s focus toward China.
The hijackers’ travel patterns before the attacks help reveal the terrorists’ organizational structure.
Far-right extremists have done little to disguise how they crowdfund their activities and legal defenses.
Russia’s imprisonment of Brittney Griner is affecting U.S. policy in Ukraine, and other adversaries are watching.
The United States tries to instill liberal norms in partner forces, but what happens when those norms are in tension?
There's room to improve in the upcoming midterm elections.
Bin Laden's successor steered the organization through a tumultuous decade and left it stagnated, but the next leader will have new opportunities for growth.
The hype about medium-altitude long-endurance drones pays too little attention to their vulnerability.