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 be won solely by the superior algorithms or exquisite platforms that the U.S. military has invested in. It will be won by the side that can produce, replace, and adapt expendable weapons faster than its adversary,” writes Freedman.
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law is launching a new program to help University of Texas law students build careers in the federal government and Washington, DC. The Program on Federal Government and Washington, DC Lawyering, led by Professor Brian Pérez-Daple, will give students the mentorship, connections, and practical guidance they need to pursue opportunities with federal agencies, the U.S. Department...
Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, was quoted in an article in Dispatch on "FISA's Section 702 Has Lapsed. Now What?". Section 702's authority on surveilling non-Americans abroad lapsed for the first time on June 12. “The relative constitutional clarity that 702 provides should be seen as stabilizing and protective, and so for that...
After Congress allowed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expire over the weekend, Strauss Center Director Adam Klein provided his perspective to The Christian Science Monitor in their article "Congress lets part of spy law lapse. What's next for counterterrorism efforts?" FISA Section 702 grants the U.S. government the ability to surveil non-U.S. persons abroad without...