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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
Contributions to Books
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 …
The Case For Drones, Kenneth Anderson
The Case For Drones, Kenneth Anderson
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2014-12Abstract:This cover story in Commentary magazine (7500 words) offers a defense of drone warfare and targeted killing against legal and ethical claims made by both the American libertarian right and the American and international left. It addresses empirical claims of "excessive" civilian casualties, as well as ethical arguments that drones make the resort to force not just easier, but "too easy," and that in order to deter "overuse" of armed force, soldiers (and implicitly civilians) need to be exposed to otherwise unnecessary risk. It explains how drone technology and targeted killing fit together in …
Denial Of Territory To Terrorist Groups In Us Counterterrorism Strategy, Kenneth Anderson
Denial Of Territory To Terrorist Groups In Us Counterterrorism Strategy, Kenneth Anderson
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This short (1500 words) policy briefing paper describes the strategic evolution of US counterterrorism policies to incorporate "denial of territory" strategies alongside existing strategies, particularly long-term, increasingly continuous surveillance by drones, and armed drone attacks, pursued as a counter-raiding strategy against terrorist groups. It argues that US counterterrorism requires not only a counter-raiding strategy via drone strikes, but also the ability to deny territory to terrorist groups.Denial of territory means two distinct strategies, however. One is to deny safe havens to terrorist groups; safe houses, compounds, training camps and bases -- the tiny slices of territory that are usually understood …
Time Out Of Joint, Kenneth Anderson
Time Out Of Joint, Kenneth Anderson
Book Reviews
(reviewing War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences by Mary L. Dudziak) American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2013-10Abstract:The meaning of time in war is the topic of legal historian Mary L. Dudziak's 2012 book. This extended review essay (30 pp) considers both on its own terms of cultural criticism, and then from the standpoint of rationalist and realist critics. The book's overall cultural claim is that time in war is its own category and has effects and meaning in war independent of the considerations of security, liberty, and necessity in war that are often thought to be all …