A Tale of Two Mogadishus
The Somali capital has had a calm year, but what does it actually mean?
Rational Security: The “Live from Mom’s Basement” Edition
Scott Anderson, Natalie Orpett, and Ariane Tabatabai talked through the week’s big national security news…
Lawfare Daily: Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and the Short War Illusion
Dispelling the "Short War Illusion."
Rational Security: The “Hugging Ukraine” Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Tyler McBrien, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Kevin Frazier talked through a couple…
War, Race, and America’s Values
A review of Wil Haygood, “The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam…
Tokyo’s Nuclear Dilemma
Would a nuclear-armed Japan be a deterrence shortcut or a source of instability?
Legal-ism Mission Creep
A review of Doyle K. Hodges, “The Rise of US Military Legalism: A New Theory…
When Commercial Satellites Become Wartime Intelligence
Commercial satellite imagery now serves accountability and military operations, but the law has not caught…
Lawfare Daily: Inside Zelensky’s Disastrous Decision to Fire Ukraine’s Minister of Defense
How will the firing of Mykhailo Fedorov impact the course of the war?