Hero of the Dog Shirt Revolution
The estimable Emily Hoge sets a new standard
Good Morning:
I mean look, folks. The estimable Emily Hoge, appearing yesterday on #DogShirtTV has set a new standard in dog shirt revolutionary virtue.
Not only did she—a distinguished scholar in modern Soviet and Russian history at Clemson University—come on #DogShirtTV yesterday to discuss her fascinating Lawfare article on “The Awkward History of Russia’s Recent Recognition of the Taliban,” she carefully selected the appropriate dog shirt to wear for the occasion, notwithstanding pressure from anti-dog-shirt family members. She was serious enough about choosing the right dog shirt that I even drove a selection of several over to her house so she could choose the dog shirt that was right for her.
The dog shirt revolution comes for us all. The only question is whether we join it or get run over by it.
So yeah, yesterday on #DogShirtTV, the estimable Mike Feinberg and I welcomed Ms. Hoge, dog shirt superstar. Seriously, Emily—who is married to the the irrationally anti-dog-shirt Quinta Jurecic, risked a divorce for the sake of dressing properly on the show.
Oh, yeah, we also also had an excellent discussion of her Lawfare article and the ideological developments that have shaped changing Russian official discussion of the Soviet Afghanistan war.
Yesterday On Lawfare
Compiled by the estimable Mary Ford
Evaluating Congressional Sentiment Toward the Iran Strike
Patrick Hulme and Andrew Kenealy analyze legislative messaging to gauge how congressional opinion about American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities evolved between June 10 and June 27, finding that legislator sentiment—which was overall mildly supportive of the strikes—closely mirrored actual vote shares on the matter.
Our analysis yields three primary conclusions: Congress was highly active; there was general partisan polarization but mild overall support in the lead-up to the strikes; and there was minor Republican opposition with some meaningful Democratic support for strong action.
The Cybersecurity Patchwork Quilt Remains Incomplete
Jim Dempsey argues that while President Trump’s June executive order on cybersecurity bears a striking resemblance to President Biden’s cybersecurity policy, both plans fail to address the need for greater accountability and improved critical infrastructure within the cybersecurity space.
What received less attention was President Trump’s preservation and adoption of a majority of the elements in the Biden order as his own. And what received almost no attention at all was what both the Trump and Biden orders left unresolved: the glaring deficiencies that remain in critical infrastructure cybersecurity (most notably in the drinking water, health care, emergency services, and telecommunications sectors) and the costs that software developers impose on American industry and American taxpayers by continuing to produce insecure software.
Partners or Provocateurs? Private-Sector Involvement in Offensive Cyber Operations
In the latest Lawfare research report, Sezaneh Seymour and Brandon Wales examine the risks and opportunities of increased private sector involvement in offensive cyber operations, proposing a framework to guide policy discourse.
As the scale and sophistication of cyber threats from state and criminal actors grow, U.S. officials are reevaluating the long-standing policy that reserves offensive cyber operations as an exclusively governmental function. In this new Lawfare research report, we examine the risks and benefits of expanding private-sector participation in such operations. Rather than endorsing a specific policy change, we present a structured framework to guide a focused discussion among policymakers.
Podcasts
On Lawfare Daily, Mykhailo Soldatenko and Scott Anderson sit down with Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Executive Director of the Register of Damage for Ukraine at the Council of Europe, and Patrick Pearsall, Partner at Gibson Dunn, to discuss Ukraine’s reparations strategy, the proposed reparations mechanism, and frozen Russian assets.
On Rational Security, Eric Ciaramella and I join Anderson to take stock of President Trump’s U-turn on aid to Ukraine, personnel cuts at the State Department, and the heated debate over the success of the Trump administration’s June strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is the baby spoonbill:
I (
) am informed that a baby spoonbill is sometimes known as a teaspoon. This is amusing, but it raises the question of what spoon precisely the adult spoonbill is. If the baby is a teaspoon, logically the adult ought to be a tablespoon, but that still seems too small. Perhaps a Chinese soup spoon?In honor of today’s Beast, I have discovered a Wikipedia article entitled “List of types of spoons.” Isn’t the internet wonderful?
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