Register Women for the Draft? Not so fast
Veteran journalist Sig Christenson wrote an interesting article (in which I am quoted) about whether women will be required to register for the draft now that all combat specialties are open to them. At...
Monthly Archive: January 2016
The DoD Law of War Manual and its Critics: Some Observations
One of the most important law of war documents to emerge recently is the much-anticipated U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Law of War Manual. Decades in development, the 1,200 + page treatise aims to...
The Responsibility to Protect: Getting the Law Right Matters
In a January 25th op-ed (published online December 19th) the usually reliable Christian Science Monitor praises the 54-nation African Union (AU) for deciding to deploy 5,000 troops to strife-ridden Burundi – over that nation’s...
Mike Lewis Memorial Teleforum: Defining the Law of War
Last Friday I had the privilege of participating in the inaugural Mike Lewis Memorial Teleforum entitled Defining the Law of War. This was a real privilege because Mike Lewis, a Navy aviator-turned-law professor, left...
