Founded in 2010, Lawfare approaches the domains of national security and law as they are broadly defined. While Lawfare’s scope encompasses traditional hard security issues such as cybersecurity, executive powers, domestic extremism, and foreign policy, we also go beyond these issues to accommodate the current challenges and complexities facing security at a local and global level.

The 21st century national security environment has shifted; the threats and challenges are now often global in their reach with broad implications for governments and individuals’ daily lives, as well as asymmetric but connected in their impact.

Because national security prominently intersects with global and societal challenges, from climate change and democracy to personal decisions in public health or data privacy, Lawfare offers reliable, nonpartisan scholarship with the responsiveness and readablility of journalism. Our goal is to provide trustworthy fact-based analysis that informs government deliberations and public debate on the hard national security choices our democracy faces.

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