• The CIA and Targeted Killings Beyond Borders

    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?

    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

    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

    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.

  • Global Roundup

    Global Roundup

    Ty Cobb analyzes recent events affecting our national security.

  • Iran Shoots Down U.S. Drone Amid Evidence of Growing Western Covert Programs

    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

    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

    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 [...]

 

Other News

/ January 9, 2012 3:10 pm

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.

/ January 8, 2012 10:51 pm

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.

/ January 7, 2012 3:30 pm

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.  

/ December 29, 2011 10:50 pm

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.

/ December 12, 2011 3:07 pm

Global Roundup

Ty Cobb analyzes recent events affecting our national security.

/ December 6, 2011 1:03 am

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.

/ November 29, 2011 1:24 pm

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."

/ November 26, 2011 5:08 pm

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 [...]

/ November 13, 2011 9:35 pm

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 [...]

/ November 8, 2011 9:01 pm

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 [...]