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The President's Ndu Speech And The Pivot From The First Term To The Second, Kenneth Anderson, Benjamin Wittes
The President's Ndu Speech And The Pivot From The First Term To The Second, Kenneth Anderson, Benjamin Wittes
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American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2014-3Abstract"The President's NDU Speech" is the third chapter of a book, "Speaking the Law," which analyzes the speeches of the Obama administration on national security law and policy. The book is being published online by the Hoover Institution, Stanford University on its website, chapter by chapter as they are completed. Once all chapters are done (end of 2013), the full book will be published by Hoover Institution Press in hard copy.Chapter 3 (the earlier chapters are available for open source download at the Hoover Institution website or through links at the Lawfare national security …
Efficiency In Bello And Ad Bellum: Making The Use Of Force Too Easy?, Kenneth Anderson
Efficiency In Bello And Ad Bellum: Making The Use Of Force Too Easy?, Kenneth Anderson
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This article criticizes a widely asserted claim that drones make the resort to force and violence — war — “too easy.” Attractive on the surface to many, this article says that “too easy” is not a coherent notion as applied in war. The “too easy” argument comes in two forms, a moral argument and a maximization of social welfare argument. The maximization of social welfare version (on which the article focuses) frames “too easy” as a matter of creating an “inefficient” level of disincentive to use of force on account of insufficient risks to one’s own forces in so doing …