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Demystifying the Title 10-Title 50 Debate: Distinguishing Military Operations, Intelligence Activities & Covert Action

By Andru E. Wall* — Click here to read the full text of the Article Modern warfare requires close integration of military and intelligence forces. The Secretary of Defense possesses authorities under Title 10 and Title 50 and is best suited to lead US government operations against external unconventional and cyber threats. Titles 10 and 50 create mutually supporting, not mutually exclusive, authorities. Operations conducted under military command and control pursuant to a Secretary of Defense-issued execute order are military operations and not intelligence activities. Attempts by congressional overseers to redefine military preparatory operations as intelligence activities are legally and […]

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Goldsmith & Heymann Debate Options for KSM

Click here to listen to the full debate By Mat Trachok, NSJ Staff Editor – On April 19th, Professors Jack Goldsmith and Phil Heymann of Harvard Law School debated what the Obama administration should do with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM).  According to both Goldsmith and Heymann, the United States has three options available: it can try KSM before a military commission, it can try him in a civilian court, or it can continue to hold him in military detention.  Both professors agreed that trying KSM before a military commission was the worst option.  However, they also agreed

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Unmanned Robotics & New Warfare: A Pilot/Professor’s Perspective

By Mary L. Cummings – As the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Humans and Automation Laboratory, I was asked to comment from a technologist’s perspective at the recent symposium Drone Warfare: New Robotics & Targeted Killings on the panel  “Unmanned Robotics & New Warfare.”  My perspective is unique in that not only do I conduct millions of dollars of research in the development of technologies to enable one or more humans to control unmanned vehicles (i.e., robots) more easily, but I also look at these issues from the perspective of having flown advanced fighters in the U.S. Navy,

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New Thriller Highlights Public Health & National Security Connection

By Mat Trachok, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer According to surgeon and best-selling author Robin Cook, the world is at risk from an imminent, serious pandemic.  Cook has written a new medical thriller entitled Plague, which he hopes will raise consciousness about this potential threat.  In his recent article “Plague: A New Thriller of the Coming Pandemic,” Cook explains the science behind the novel. According to Cook, the world is currently under threat from two relatively benign strains of the influenza A virus:  H1N1 (known commonly as swine flu) and H5N1 (the strain of avian flu that appeared in 2006

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