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Al-Qaeda's Soccer Plot
Al-Qaeda is again top news. But perhaps with the wrong story. The more frightening plot may have happened Northeast, not Northwest. After the botched Northwest Christmas plot, we now know that Umar...
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Raffaello Pantucci on targeted killings: what are the alternatives?
Raffaello Pantucci, a dear friend of mine, has penned a guest post for Kings of War on targeted killings (TK). The post is a lengthy response to a previous guest post on KoW, by Adam Stahl. Below, Raff...
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Hate’s fair in love and war
The “grievance criticism” of targeted killings reared its head again yesterday in Ibrahim Mothana’s OpEd for the New York Times. I call it the grievance criticism because it is, logically speaking,...
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Whose war is it anyway?
The real reason war and strategy types don’t make good comedians: Q: When is a war not a war? A: When it is a transnational armed conflict between a state and a non-state actor conducted in the...
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The Obama administration flunks the Arab Awakening test
Guest post by Eugenio Lilli, a postgraduate researcher at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London and a teaching fellow at the UK’s Joint Services Command and Staff College. I am well...
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The secret legality of drone strikes
US drone strikes are the new Guantanamo – a focal point for all those railing against America and the excesses of its War on Terror efforts to counter violent extremist (CVE). The arguments against...
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