Today the U.S. government released a redacted report of its investigation into the Kunduz hospital tragedy in which a Doctors Without Borders (DWB) hospital was mistakenly identified as an enemy target and attacked by...
Time’s Mark Thompson has an interesting new article entitled “Why Americans Want a Military General in the White House.” It focuses on the political chatter about retired Marine General Jim Mattis as being a possible...
My friend and colleague Professor Jeff Powell has written a terrific new book entitled Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of the U.S. Drone War. Last week the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security co-hosted...
The Lawfare podcast last week (“Refugee Policy, and the Syrian Civil War”) featured Eric Schwartz, the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, who previously served...
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week shows that “two-thirds of Americans believe torture can be justified to extract information from suspected terrorists,” adding that this is a “level of support similar to that seen...
Earlier this week a journalist asked me about Donald Trump’s comment regarding the ongoing conflict with the Islamic State. Trump said that the “problem is we have the Geneva Conventions, all sorts of rules...
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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