Shortbursts is an occasional feature of Lawfire® designed to provide quick updates on a variety of matters. Duke Law grad selected as Canada’s first Vice Judge Advocate General Without question, Steve Strickey–who obtained his...
Today’s guest post is by former National Security Agency General Counsel (and LENS Speaker!) Glenn Gerstell. He is addressing one of the hottest issues in national security legislation today: whether section 702 of The...
Last July a story in the Washington Post headlined “The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI” and went on to explain that: “The design and software innovations, as...
Shortbursts is an occasional feature of Lawfire® designed to provide quick updates on a variety of matters. Lots to catch up about in this one! Base name changes finally happening In early June, Ft....
Some pundits, academics, and others have long been insisting that U.S. civil-military relations are in “crisis” a claim which, as Rosa Brooks has noted, is a “a recurring feature of American politics”. They will...
In January of 2022, Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Lloyd Austin announced that he was directing the Department of Defense (DoD) to develop a Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP). In August of...
Could using a cell phone get a civilian lawfully targeted in war? Maybe. The Ukraine conflict has seen many uses of technology–new and old–that are relevant not only with respect to the current fighting,...
In the first update of its Law of War (LoW) Manual since 2016, the Department of Defense (DoD) reversed itself on a key interpretation of international law. This post contends that while it may...
Today we are very pleased to have China expert Dean Cheng share with us his latest thinking on the relationship of three fascinating (and timely!) topics: China, space, and lawfare. As Dean explains, the...
The legal aspects of reliance on commercial satellites for military purposes is a topic garnering growing interest. Here on Lawfire® in 2021 we published “Are commercial Satellites used for intelligence-gathering in attack planning targetable?”...
Do you know what “doxing” (sometimes spelled “doxxing”) is? Do you understand how it might be used in wartime? How should the law of armed conflict treat it? The latest installment of the LENS...
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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