Last November an official Department of Defense press release heralded a massive bombing attack against Islamic State oil facilities that so devastated the entire area that it was described, in their words, as “a...
One of the most frustrating things about the drone debate is that so many of the critics (in the media especially) complain about the government’s alleged lack of transparency, yet fail themselves to give...
According to reports in yesterday’s papers, the President is very close to naming his nominee to the fill the Supreme Court vacancy occasioned by the death of Justice Anthony Scalia. Unfortunately, none of the names...
One of the most controversial aspects of this raucous primary season has been Donald Trump’s rhetoric about the use of force against terrorists, and particularly his rather opaque comments about “tak[ing] out their families.” ...
One of the more interesting facts related to the debate over the U.S.’s use of drones as an important part of an overall counter-terrorism strategy is found in a Pew Research Center poll from...
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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