A truly meaningful action you can take…
If you’re reading this, I imagine you care about national security, the laws supporting it, and the future of our country. What can you do to help? Here’s a truly meaningful action you can...
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Guest Post: Gary Phillips’ Award-winning sci-fi story about a future AI war!
Today’s post is an unusual one: it’s a sci-fi story! It describes a future conflict where artificial intelligence and other high-tech has become profoundly integrated into the battlespace. This story won the 2019 Military...
Can a tweet be a lawful order? Yes, but not always…
The case of Navy Chief Eddie Gallagher took another twist when the Navy’s announced that it intended to initiate an administrative personnel process for a “forced conversion” of Gallagher’s occupational rating. Translation: this could...
No, the “laws of war” are not “history”
Last week the President took some controversial actions in several military justice cases and – as is so often is the case these days – the press doesn’t get the story quite right. For...
Some thoughts for Veterans Day 2019
In his Proclamation for Veterans Day 2019, President Trump called on all Americans to “pause to recognize the brave men and women who have fearlessly and faithfully worked to defend the United States and...
What should leaders tell the troops about impeachment?
A few weeks ago POLITICO’s Bryan Bender contacted me regarding a story he was writing about politicization in the military, and asked what the Secretary of Defense or the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs...
A “national security crisis” or a law enforcement challenge? Consider the data
Everyone is rightly concerned about the dangers extremists can pose, but the post (“Addressing the National Security Threat of White Supremacist Terrorism”) by Jonathan Greenblatt and George Selim, two officials of the Anti-Defamation League...
Will the law cooperate with the Air Force’s bold new approach to acquiring sophisticated fighter jets?
The front page of yesterday’s Washington Times carries a story by Ben Wolfgang entitled (online) “Air Force looks for high tech fixes to ‘geriatric’ fleet of fighters in race vs. China.” Mr. Wolfgang’s excellent...
Guest Post: “Are the Killer Robots Really Coming? – Legal Considerations from a Hypothetical Application of Department of Defense Directive 3000.09”
Ever wonder how weapons empowered by artificial intelligence (AI) could possibly comply with the law of war? Today’s guest post from Army LTC Ryan Beery has some answers for you. In fact, one of...
Are tactics that deprive the disfavored of the specialized legal representation needed in complex cases something to celebrate?
As discussed elsewhere, the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment investigation’s subpoena for Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is reminiscent of the ‘get-it from-the-lawyer’ tactic Robert Mueller so successfully used in his Russia investigation. Are we...
Yes, an impeachment inquiry concerns national security
In their post entitled “There Is No Constitutional Impediment to an Impeachment Inquiry that Concerns National Security”, Professors Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen castigate Professor John Yoo’s New York Times op-ed in which he...
