On April 3, 2012, Brigadier General Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor for the U.S. Military Commissions, gave a talk entitled “Legitimacy & the Limits of Command in Reformed Military Commissions.” A transcript of the talk is available on Lawfare and the video is available HERE.

Next week, the National Security Journal will be hosting two great events: a talk by Brig. Gen. Mark Martins and our yearly symposium. We very much hope to see you all there.

Those who served our country should be full participants in the imperative to reign in the nation’s growing debt and annual deficits. They should not be singled out nor left to bear this burden alone.

This is the next war, folks, and it could be over in a matter of seconds, with no blood spilled or troops even mobilized. Beijing knows that—do we?

Speculation is rife that, with or without United States support, Israel will attack Iranian nuclear facilities, possibly soon.

Philip Alston, former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, has written a fascinating article on targeted killings. The full text of the article is available here.

President Obama went to the Pentagon to announce the Defense Department’s new “Strategic Guidance,” the document that will serve as the template for weapons acquisition, force sizing, military strategy, budgeting, and geographic focus for the future.

Marxist-Leninist doctrine predicted that capitalism would collapse on the “ash heap of history” as global communism triumphed as an economic system. Instead, 20 years ago last Sunday it was the vanguard of the international communist movement, the Soviet Union, which disintegrated.

Ty Cobb analyzes recent events affecting our national security.

Iranian armed forces claim they shot down an unmanned U.S. drone spy plane over its eastern border region.