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 Rohingya tragedy has not generated a coordinated violent response, but some jihadi groups are hoping to change that.
The United States needs to think about domestic terrorists more like it thinks about foreign terrorists.
The United States has been an enabler for Saudi Arabia's devastating intervention in Yemen, and hurt its credibility in the process.
Can the United States carry out its East Asia strategy with a shrinking navy?
Do drone strikes drive recruitment or degrade terrorist networks?
What will it take to mitigate the risks of the technological arms race?
Without a strong social safety net, people emerging from extreme poverty often turn away from democracy.
Effective CVE programs need to give local governments and civil-society groups a seat at the table.
With the Trump administration wavering in its European commitments, Germany considers going its own way.
India could be a valuable partner checking China's rise, but some forms of India's military leverage will be more effective than others.