Strauss Senior Fellow Brock Dahl Nominated to Department of State

April 16, 2026

The Strauss Center for International Security and Law congratulates Strauss Center Senior Fellow Brock Dahl on his nomination to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State. Brock is one of the nation’s foremost national security lawyers.

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  • April 20, 2026
  • National Security Law

Strauss Center Director Adam Klein was interviewed for The Christian Science Monitor on "Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines," which discusses the national security and privacy issues surrounding Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of April. “Imagine that, today, an FBI agent is...

AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War

  • April 6, 2026
  • National Security Law

Strauss Center National Security Law Fellow Megan Ezekannagha published an article with Lieber Institute at West Point's Articles of War on "Fighting at Machine Speed: AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War." Part I is available here and Part II is available here. "Integrating AI into counterfire offers the Army a credible way to compress the sensor-to-shooter...

The U.S. Drone Gap and the Future of Modern Warfare

  • March 11, 2026
  • National Security Law

Strauss Center Senior National Security Fellow Brett Freedman recently authored a piece in Dark Reading titled "The Drone Gap: Why U.S. Manufacturing Can't Keep Up with Modern Warfare." Freedman examines the widening mismatch between the central role drones now play in modern conflict and the United States' limited capacity to produce them at scale. "The next major war will not...