Recently, the Washington Post carried a story which reported, “U.S. forces are using white phosphorus munitions in their fight against the Islamic State based on pictures and videos posted online by the Pentagon, but...
On Just Security, a Canadian law school professor pilloried a U.S. presidential candidate for saying in reference to Iraq: “You know, it used to be to the victor belong [sic] the spoils. Now, there was...
Don’t look for Hollywood hotshots or nifty computer-generated action scenes. It’s all real; no actors, no sets. You’ll hear the soldiers’ conversations; you’ll be alongside them in battle; you’ll experience their fears and their...
Last week ABC News ran a story “Russian Hacking: Why the U.S. Isn’t Retaliating” which sought to explain why, “after weeks of news stories describing Russian intelligence operations to hack into the U.S....
A journalist recently asked me whether a President could “fire” a general. The answer – pardon the pun – is generally, yes…but there are some legal complications. The context we are addressing is not...
With a Guantanamo (GITMO) detainee’s counsel indicating last week that he “had no objection to his client’s facing trial in federal court, as opposed to in the military commission,” one has to wonder if...
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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