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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Canada has managed to keep relations cordial with the Trump administration. Their secret: a whole-of-government, bipartisan strategy.
The Islamic State funded its rise to power through oil smuggling and taxation, but now it's losing control of the resources and populations on which it has relied.
In a country like Libya, it's easy to play six degrees of al-Qaeda. How close is is too close for the United States?
In three books last year, a realist, a liberal interventionist, and a constructivist agree that the global order is approaching a crisis. But what are we supposed to do about it?
With its role in Syria, Russia has presented itself as an alternative security manager in the Middle East—but Moscow is discovering that getting into the region is far easier than getting out.
Donald Trump's strike in Syria may prove effective—if he can resist the temptations of mission creep.
President Trump may have less power to guide U.S. foreign policy than any president in American history. And that's not his fault.
Charlie Winter takes an inside look at how the Islamic State approaches its propaganda strategy.
The United States should take proactive steps to address North Korea and not wait for China to rein in Kim Jong Un.
The U.S. government loves to talk about the importance of strategy but doesn't know how to write a good one.