lawfare, n.Trivia

In ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠2017 Trump tweeted "LAWFARE" while quoting the Lawfare blog, whose co-founder Benjamin Wittes said Trump distorted the article's argument.

China's ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠People's Liberation Army formally counts legal warfare (falu zhan) as one of its "three warfares."

Maj. ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Gen. Charles Dunlap Jr. popularized it in 2001, defining lawfare as "the use of law as a weapon of war."

Merriam-Webster ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠dates the word's first known use to 1835.