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19 Jul

Army Publishes New Manual on Preventing Harm to Civilians

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
Over at Forbes I have a new piece about the Army’s new manual for preventing and mitigating harm to civilians in combat.  Here is an excerpt: Today, the United States Army published what I believe is the first military manual
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06 Apr

America’s Reach: The Constitutionality of Targeted Killing

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
On Friday, April 6, 2012 I will be participating in a debate at The University of California, Davis School of Law.  The topic is “America’s Reach:  The Constitutionality of Targeted Killing.”  The speech is sponsored by the ACLU and the
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02 Apr

Does the NDAA Permit the Detention of U.S. Citizens?

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 I will be participating in a debate at The University of Houston Law Center.  I’ve posted details from the flyer below.
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11 Mar

Are Targeted Killings Unlawful? A Case Study in Empirical Claims Without Empirical Evidence

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
Now available on SSRN is my newest piece, Are Targeted Killings Unlawful?  A Case Study in Empirical Claims Without Empirical Evidence.  In the piece I argue that critics of the U.S. policy of targeted killing by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs
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11 Mar

New Approaches to Reducing and Mitigating Harm to Civilians

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
I just posted to SSRN the abstract for my chapter New Approaches to Reducing and Mitigating Harm to Civilians which will appear in the Oxford University Press book, Shaping a Global Legal Framework for Counterinsurgency: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare
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30 Nov

Short Summary of Collateral Damage/Targeting Piece Now Posted at Lawfare

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
Over at Lawfare I’ve posted a short summary of my collateral damage piece.  You can access the summary here. To give you a feel for the flavor of the blog post, here is my concluding paragraph: “Taken together, the CDM
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03 Oct

Bush v. Obama on Counterterrorism Policy

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
On Tuesday, October 4th I will be part of a panel at Mercer University School of Law.  The panel discussion will explore the differences between President Obama and President Bush’s national security policies, specifically as they relate to counterterrorism.  Some
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05 May

The bin Laden Aftermath: Why Obama Chose SEALs, Not Drones

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
I’m reposting (with permission) a piece that was just published by Foreign Policy magazine entitled The Bin Laden Aftermath: Why Obama Chose SEALs, Not Drones. Why did the United States choose to launch a raid against al-Qaeda leader Osama
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02 May

Guantanamo Interrogations Reportedly Led to Bin Laden

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
Over at Lawfare Ben Wittes aks Will Bin Laden’s Death Reignite the Interrogation Debate? I think there is little doubt that it will. Consider this recent post by Marc Thiessen over at The American Enterprise blog.  Thiessen writes “So
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02 May

Pocket Litter, Intel and the Ground Operation

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
Beyond confirming that Bin Laden was actually the person killed in Abottabad, what is the significance of troops being on the ground to conduct the Bin Laden Operation?  Can their presence lead us to the new #1
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02 May

Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Bin Laden Operation

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
I’m guest blogging over at Opinio Juris, below is a repost of something I wrote there: First off, there is a lot of talk about this operation being a “human operation” involving special operations forces.  Some readers may
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15 Mar

Elite U.S. counterterror forces facing cuts

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
Elite U.S. counterterror forces facing cuts: “Resources are heavily taxed by the operational tempo in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said.” (Via GovExec.com: Defense + Homeland Security News.)
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10 Jan

A Cup of Coffee After the Waterboard: Seemingly Voluntary Post-Abuse Statements

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
I’ve posted the abstract to a recent symposium article “A Cup of Coffee After the Waterboard: Seemingly Voluntary Post-Abuse Statements” to SSRN, but unfortunately I don’t have a .PDF of the final page proofs to post yet.  Here is
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31 Dec

ABA National Security Law Report: Winter 2010 Issue

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
The Winter 2010 Issue of the ABA National Security Law Report, the flagship publication of the Standing Committee on Law and National Security is now available on-line here. Here’s a look at the Table of Contents: In The Problem
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28 Dec

Chesney on The NY Times Editorial Page and Its Potentially Misleading Account of the Detention Status Quo

  • By Greg McNeal
  • In Law and Public Policy
Over at Lawfare, Bobby Chesney writes: In an editorial that ran on Monday, the Times took up the laudable task of defending the administration’s plans to substantially enhance the procedural safeguards associated with the annual review board process for
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