The Problem
State and non-state actors are, with increasing frequency and effectiveness, waging international lawfare against the U.S. and its allies and partners, businesses, and citizens. Yet no U.S. government entity is holistically tracking, collecting best practices, or otherwise informing defensive measures against, such lawfare.
Meanwhile, U.S. efforts to wage international lawfare, where appropriate, have been insufficiently systematic, strategic, and coordinated. This is a missed opportunity, including because international lawfare can sometimes achieve U.S. national security objectives at far less cost, in human lives and taxpayer dollars, than can kinetic warfare.
