At the end of World War II, some ten million current and former members of Nazi Germany’s and Imperialist Japan’s armed forces survived the conflict. Indeed, some Germans fought on for months, and the...
At the Present and Future of Airpower conference at the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland last May, I spoke with Chrome360’s Catriona Oliphant...
In this morning’s Washington Times there’s a report about the drone attack on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. As the Times accurately points out, “the video of panicked security officers breaking ranks to escape the...
What sort of legal work are military lawyers (called judge advocates or “JAGs”) doing in deployed areas like Afghanistan? Actually, lots of different things, and two terrific Air Force JAGs with Duke Law connections recently updated...
What does some tough public criticism and an employee climate survey showing confidence concerns about its leadership mean for the FBI’s job performance? Will it decline as bloggers Scott Anderson and Ben Wittes suggest...
At the Aspen Security Forum this week, FBI Director Christopher Wray characterized China “from a counterintelligence perspective” as representing “in many ways” the “broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country.” ...
I attended the Center for a New American Security’s Annual Conference entitled “Strategic Competition” on June 21st and wanted to share with you the answers to a question I posed to Senators Elizabeth Warren...
“Shortbursts” is a Lawfire® feature you will see occasionally, and it aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items. Filling the Supreme Court vacancy: The press is alive...
In 1778, Samuel Johnson said that “every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier,” but should that still be the case today? John Stuart Mill claimed: A man who has nothing which he...
The military tries hard to stay above political frays and maintain its reputation for genuine non-partisanship. That effort – which was never easy – is even more difficult today given that the Administration and...
Unbeknownst to each other, Georgetown’s Daniel Byman and I have very recently written blogposts that cover much the same ground: foreign policy, “soft power,” and the U.S. State Department. The essays are mostly conflicting,...
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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