“Shorbursts” is a Lawfire®occasional feature that aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items: LENS Essay wins a national award! Some great news! Mark Rothrock’s terrific essay, “All’s...
Recently I’ve received information about legal careers in the Air Force, Army, and the National Security Agency that I wanted to pass on to law students – and others who may be interested in...
Does the media give you what you need to know about critical national security issues? If you think it does, you may be disappointed in a story (“As U.S. air war in Afghanistan surged,...
Does America want its defense establishment led by those who have never served in the military? Does the principle of civilian control of the military mandate that result? Can’t those who haven’t served still...
Today we have an op-ed about a ‘ripped from the headlines’ topic: the recent executive orders that essentially shut down the social media messaging app WeChat (and also TikTok ). We are very pleased...
As readers may recall, we’ve talked a number of times about civil-military relations, and the importance of keeping the military nonpartisan (see e.g., here, here, and here). Alex Ward, a reporter for Vox, asked...
Today’s post is the result of a query I received from a Duke Law grad who is a military lawyer (called a “judge advocate” or “JAG” in military parlance). She’s returning from an overseas...
In today’s post I’m very pleased to present Adrienne Jackson’s review of “Hunting The Caliphate: America’s War on ISIS and the Dawn of the Strike Cell” by retired Army Major General Dana Pittard and...
This summer has seen headlines about armed groups such as “Injuries reported after armed militias clash at Louisville protest” and “Armed Neighborhood Groups Form in the Absence of Police Protection”. What can government authorities...
Today’s guest writer is Kristen Casey, a rising Duke Law 3L who is one of our wonderful LENS research assistants, an author in the LENS Essay series, and a return Lawfire® blogger (see here). ...
Today’s post is by my friend and popular LENS conference speaker, Mr. Dean Cheng. Dean is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Studies Center and the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign...
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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