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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Historians' knowledge of primary sources, contextual nuances and contingent events show that they have much to offer scholars and policymakers working on terrorism.
Now that Afghanistan is no longer an area of active hostilities, strikes should be subject to the standard of near certainty.
Canada is rethinking its approach to intelligence gathering and analysis and prioritizing its own national interests.
The United States has a range of options for its new Afghanistan policy.
Officials whitewashing the Taliban as a responsible diplomatic party are getting the organization wrong.
Al-Qaeda will now have a more permissive environment in which to operate, but the precise context will be important for the U.S. policy response.
White supremacists and other far-right ideologues are drawing inspiration from Ted Kaczynski's anti-technology manifestos.
Spain's close counterterrorism cooperation with Morocco provides a model for effective international efforts to prevent terrorist attacks.
Does the United States still have the grit necessary to fight and win long wars?
The Syrian government got off the hook for facilitating the terrorist group's rise and funding its operations.