Goldsmith's volume offers a welcome tour d'horizon of the domestic, international, and comparative legal issues associated with the United States' Defend Forward strategy and the tactics of persistent engagement that support it. With chapters by leading government and academic experts, this book surveys key legal restraints and authorities under the U.S. Constitution and other domestic laws as well as all the relevant international legal topics such as sovereignty, intervention, counter-measures, and attribution. Supplemented by comparisons to Israeli and U.K. approaches, the result is not simply an introduction to an under-explored topic, but a lastingDLand significantDLcontribution to the field.
Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is the author of After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency, as well as numerous other books and articles on topics related to presidential power, terrorism, national security, international law, and internet law. Goldsmith previously served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel (October 2003-July 2004) and Special Counsel to the General Counsel to the Department of Defense (September 2002-June 2003).