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Steven Hill[*] & Benjamin Bastomski[†] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Introduction This Article examines the background, design, and early execution of NATO’s naval deployment in the Aegean Sea in support of broader international efforts to address the 2016 crisis involving persons crossing or attempting to cross waters in that area.[1] That crisis […]
Jonathan Fischbach[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Introduction: A Revealing Inversion Data scientists utilize artificial intelligence (AI) in thousands of different contexts, ranging from analytics that design culinary masterpieces and identify illegal fishing, to algorithms that diagnose cancerous tumors, virtually compose symphonies, and predict vehicle failures.[1] Two communities within this expansive field, […]
Seth Barrett Tillman[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] In their Lawfare post,[1] Professor Jack Goldsmith and Ben Miller-Gootnick put forward the traditional argument that legislative-officer succession, as permitted by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (1947 Act),[2] leads to undesirable and destabilizing changes in party control. Quoting a report of the […]
A Government Lawyer[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Introduction About two weeks before the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Trump, Professor Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman published an article on Lawfare. In it, they argue that Trump’s withholding from Ukraine of military aid and a White House meeting, meant […]
Louis René Beres[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Introduction In early May 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump—responding to Kim Jung-un’s latest round of missile tests—sought to reassure the American public. His seat-of-the-pants comments, however, were based entirely upon the presumed importance of his personal relationship with Kim Jung-un and had nothing […]
Sean K. Price[*] [This article is available in PDF at this link] Introduction The United States is under attack. In the months leading up to hostilities, the enemy’s intelligence agencies have identified key U.S. and allied military officials who use cloud-connected artificial pacemakers[1] or implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD).[2] Immediately preceding offensive operations in the physical […]
Shane R. Reeves[*] & Ronald T. P. Alcala[†] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] On December 19, 2018, President Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria.[3] While U.S. troops have not completely left Syria,[4] the slow drawdown provides an opportunity to reflect on some of the legal challenges that arose […]