The CIA and Targeted Killings Beyond Borders
Philip Alston, former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, has written a fascinating article on targeted killings. The full text of the article is available here.
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Mopping up the Last War or Stumbling into the Next?
Sir Daniel Bethlehem considers whether policy makers are asking themselves the right questions regarding out-of-theater targeting.
Ty Cobb
The Defense Strategic Guidance: What’s New? What is the Focus? Is it Realistic?
President Obama went to the Pentagon to announce the Defense Department’s new “Strategic Guidance,” the document that will serve as the template for weapons acquisition, force sizing, military strategy, budgeting, and geographic focus for the future.
Bob Gast
War in Afghanistan – Where Do we Go from Here?
As we in the United States “celebrate” the tenth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan with a cost of several billion dollars a month for the military alone, I have become increasingly curious as to if and when the United States Government will finally decide that we must intelligently assess our role in this part of the world and move [...]
Michael Glennon
A “Historical Gloss on the Vesting Power?”
Can the President, based upon no textually committed constitutional power but only upon inherent or implied power, disregard an act of Congress because that law concerns the conduct of U.S. foreign relations? On November 7, before the United States Supreme Court, in Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the Obama Administration appeared to give an answer: yes. (For a good summary see the [...]
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The CIA and Targeted Killings Beyond Borders
Philip Alston, former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, has written a fascinating article on targeted killings. The full text of the article is available here.
The Defense Strategic Guidance: What’s New? What is the Focus? Is it Realistic?
President Obama went to the Pentagon to announce the Defense Department's new "Strategic Guidance," the document that will serve as the template for weapons acquisition, force sizing, military strategy, budgeting, and geographic focus for the future.
Volume 3, Issue 1
Volume 3, Issue 1 of the Harvard National Security Journal is now available online. The articles will be available on Westlaw and HeinOnline shortly.
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Marxist-Leninist doctrine predicted that capitalism would collapse on the “ash heap of history” as global communism triumphed as an economic system. Instead, 20 years ago last Sunday it was the vanguard of the international communist movement, the Soviet Union, which disintegrated.
Iran Shoots Down U.S. Drone Amid Evidence of Growing Western Covert Programs
Iranian armed forces claim they shot down an unmanned U.S. drone spy plane over its eastern border region.
Good-Bye Counter-Insurgency; Hello Air-Sea Battle
The U.S. is running as fast as it can from the defining strategy and focus of the last decade—fighting counter-insurgencies and engaging in nation-building. The new leitmotif the Defense Department is embracing is the "Air-Sea Battle."
The Targeted Killing of Al-Awlaki
By David Husband – Recently, there has been a tremendous uproar over the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a suspected al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen. Glen Greenwald, criticizing the Obama administration, claims, “The Executive Branch decided it has the authority to target U.S. citizens for death without due process, but told nobody (until it was leaked) and refuses to identify the [...]
A Revamped U.S. Export Control System for the 21st Century
By Manik Suri – While the United States has built one of the most sophisticated export control regimes in the world, the regime’s Cold War era architecture is outdated and must be transformed to reflect today’s realities and meet tomorrow’s challenges. In August 2009, President Obama directed the National Security Council and National Economic Council to coordinate an interagency review [...]
A “Historical Gloss on the Vesting Power?”
Can the President, based upon no textually committed constitutional power but only upon inherent or implied power, disregard an act of Congress because that law concerns the conduct of U.S. foreign relations? On November 7, before the United States Supreme Court, in Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the Obama Administration appeared to give an answer: yes. (For a good summary see the [...]
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