Jen Patja Howell

Over the last few weeks, we’ve talked a lot about the war in Ukraine on this series—how the Russian, Ukrainian and American governments are leveraging…

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by international law expert Chimene Keitner to hash through some of the week’s big national security news,…

Cyberwar is here, proclaims Thomas Rid, professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in a New York Times op-ed…

General John Baker served until December as the chief defense council at the military commissions. The military commissions’ prosecutors and defense lawyers are in conversations…

Alex Finley is a former officer of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, who now is a novelist and a writer. Most recently, though, Alex has…

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, one of the groups receiving the most attention for its participation in the insurrection on the…

Open-source investigations—sometimes referred to as OSINT, or open-source intelligence—have been crucial to public understanding of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An enormous number of researchers…

This week, Alan, Quinta, Scott and guest Lawfare executive editor Natalie Orpett sat down to discuss several of the week’s big national security news stories,…

Alexander Stubb is the former prime minister, foreign minister and finance minister of Finland. Back in 2008, after the Russian invasion of Georgia, he worked…

It’s been an eventful week in the department of criminal cases arising out of Jan. 6. We had the first jury verdict convicting an alleged…