Cruel to be Kind: Authoritarian Counterinsurgency and the Winning of Hearts and Minds (David H. Ucko, Lawfare)

In counterinsurgency theory, legitimacy is everything – at least according to mainstream Western texts on the topic. Beyond the narrow pursuit of the enemy, so the theory goes, it is necessary to win the “hearts and minds” of the people. Often maligned but seldom well understood, this phrase is erroneously credited to Gen. Gerald Templer, who, while commanding the British campaign in Malaya, noted that “the answer lies not in pouring more soldiers into the jungle but rests in the hearts and minds of the Malayan people.”

https://www.lawfareblog.com/cruel-be-kind-authoritarian-counterinsurgency-and-winning-hearts-and-minds

Strategic Planning for a More Secure Network (Paul Rosenzweig, Lawfare)

As we move toward a presidential election, the question arises: what should the next President (whoever he or she may be) do about cybersecurity? It is a sufficiently salient question that President Obama has chartered a commission, whose basic purpose is to think about next steps for whoever follows after. That's a challenging task and to cast their net widely the commission has scheduled five public meetings in the next few months. Nor, of course, will the commission's recommendations be the only entrant -- think tanks and other institutions are likely to offer recommendations as well

https://www.lawfareblog.com/strategic-planning-more-secure-network