As early as this morning, the Supreme Court may issue orders in the travel ban litigation. I believe Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ought to recuse herself from these cases, but supporters of the ban...
Two terrific things happened for the Air Force recently. No, I’m not talking about the new poll that shows Americans consider the Air Force the military’s most important branch, or the even newer poll...
Former FBI Director Jim Comey will surely face a barrage of questions when he testifies on Capitol Hill this week. I’ve always thought of him as an honorable man caught in impossible circumstances, and...
In his essay, “U.S. Military Justice and “Operational Mishaps”: A Primer”, did Gene Fidell get it right as to how the American military deals with battlefield errors? Not quite according to our guest blogger, U.S....
Who benefits most from government-provided security, the wealthy or the less well-to- do? Professor Mike Walden, an economist at North Carolina State University, raises that interesting issue in a recent article about taxation...
Recently my friends John Bellinger and Paul Lewis became the latest Washington policy devotees to advocate the closing of Guantanamo (GITMO). While they make excellent arguments, there are some key points with which I must...
In the military you unfortunately hear about young people dying tragically, but you never really get used to it. That’s why I was shocked and deeply saddened when I heard this week about...
Tristan Wimmer is a man with a plan – and it’s a great one. The former Marine sniper’s proposal for an indoor climbing gym in the Pittsburgh area recently won top honors (and $5,000)...
Over on the Cipher Brief my friend Rachel Stohl of the Stimson Center has a new essay (“Trump Drone Policy Taking Shape”) in which she expresses concerns about what she thinks the new administration’s...
“Shortbursts” is a new Lawfire feature you will see occasionally, and it aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items. As April has been such a busy month, I...
The question is not whether more cyber attacks will occur, but how prepared we are to deal with them. The Incident Response Forum in Washington, DC. on April 4 focused on just that issue. ...
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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