If a commercial satellite company supplies photo intelligence used by a customer-nation to launch attacks on the forces of another country, what might the targeted forces do, consistent with international law, to stop such...
Can economic sanctions really work? Is the U.S. as effective as it might be when it finds itself needing to utilize what might be called a “financial warfare” strategy? In the latest addition to...
Do you know what “CFIUS” means? “FIRRMA”? Duke Law student Jesse Ruth does, and in the newest installment to LENS’s online Essays on Law, Ethics and National Security Series, he’ll explain what these legal...
Yesterday Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) completed its 26th Annual LENS National Security Law Conference. Conducted virtually, the conference garnered–by far–our largest number of registrants ever. That’s no surprise due...
Today’s post is by Marine Lt. Col Kurt Sanger and, wow, it could not be more timely! The Washington Post just ran a story indicating the Biden administration is planning sanctions against Russia for...
If you are concerned about cybersecurity, don’t miss this coming Saturday morning at the LENS Conference! We have a panel of, literally, the nation’s top experts to bring you up to speed. They’ll be...
Lawyers as leaders is an increasingly popular topic in contemporary America, so we’re especially fortunate to have retired Air Force lieutenant general Jack Rives with us today to share his thoughts on this vitally...
At a news conference shortly after General Lloyd Austin was confirmed as Secretary of Defense, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced that he “firmly established that combatting the pandemic is his number one...
Registration for Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security’s (LENS) Annual National Security Law conference is smashing all our records, and we are expecting the largest number of attendees in our 26-year history. ...
Today’s post addresses a disturbing issue in the Western Pacific you may not have heard too much about: the threat posed by unlawful fishing activities that could dangerously destabilize the region. In our latest...
Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Lloyd Austin is understandably concerned about, as he characterized them, “actions associated with extremist or dissident ideologies” within the armed forces. Consequently, he’s ordered ”commanding officers and supervisors at all...
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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