After a mostly uneventful Senate hearing, Army General Mark A. Milley was confirmed as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 89-1 vote on July 25th. However,...
Today’s post is by Shane Stansbury, the Robinson Everett Distinguished Fellow in the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS) and a Senior Lecturing Fellow, here at Duke. He’s urging a renewal of...
In the aftermath of the horrific mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, the public has been inundated by all kinds of commentary, much (most?) of it ill-informed and/or unproductively politically-charged. Are there any practical...
The Aspen Security Forum gathers many of the top leaders in the national security realm. NBC News correspondent Courtney Kube opened this year’s conference with an interview of NATO’s General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg. I...
The Aspen Security Forum does not have many repeat speakers, but Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, is one of the few. Given today’s hyper-polarized and...
The Aspen Security Forum hosted a number of luminaries including one of America’s greatest, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She was interviewed by Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, on the topic of “Democracy Under Siege: The Rise...
The Aspen Security Forum is an annual gathering of many of the top leaders in the national security realm. One of the great things about it is the opportunity to pose questions, and I...
President Trump’s announced intent to nominate Secretary of the Army Mark Esper to become the new Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is a welcome development if Congress can act quickly and in a bipartisan manner,...
In his post critiquing Department of Defense (DoD) General Counsel Paul Ney’s address to the Israeli Defense Force conference, Rutgers Law professor Adil Ahmad Haque uses the phrase “garbage in, garbage out” to characterize...
Last year’s post about Memorial Day (“Honoring Those Who Gave Up Two Lives”) had some background as to the holiday’s origin and purpose. However, a disheartening new poll saying “Only 55% of Americans Know...
Do you have questions about the pardon of former Army First Lieutenant Michael Behenna who was accused of killing a prisoner in Iraq? In a recent essay (“What Questions Is the Pentagon Avoiding?“) Just...
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010 where he is a professor of the practice of law and Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.
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