by Jordan Myers | Jun 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Jordan Myers – Congress is taking the first step to increase oversight of the much-debated missile defense programs via new spending regulations in the proposed defense appropriations bill. The Senate Armed Forces Committee inserted language requiring the...
by Brian Itami | Jun 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Brian Itami, NSJ Senior Editor – Over the last week and a half, at least fourteen Americans were detained on terrorism charges in the United States and Yemen in two separate incidents. Law enforcement officials arrested Mohamed Alessa and Carlos Almonte on...
by John Thorlin | Jun 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
By John Thorlin, NSJ Digest Editor – On June 2, 2010, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned. Though he poetically (or just strangely) claimed that a Japanese songbird he had seen during a recent trip to Korea had signaled to him that it was time to...
by Daniel Jacobson | May 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Daniel Jacobson – On May 21, 2010, in Al Maqaleh v. Gates, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit unanimously reversed a previous district court ruling and held that there was no jurisdiction to hear the petitions for habeas corpus relief of three detainees...
by Laurie R. Blank and Amos Guiora | May 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Laurie Blank* and Amos Guiora** – Click here to download the published PDF version Gone are the days of soldiers facing each other across large battlefields, tanks shelling tanks, and fighter jets engaging in dogfights. War, or armed conflict, to use a more...
by Richard Fontaine and Micah Springut | May 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
By Richard Fontaine and Micah Springut* – As the hundreds of American and South Korean officials involved in formulating and executing policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea over the years will attest, theirs is a difficult endeavor. ...
