In his essay, “U.S. Military Justice and “Operational Mishaps”: A Primer”, did Gene Fidell get it right as to how the American military deals with battlefield errors? Not quite according to our guest blogger, U.S....
Who benefits most from government-provided security, the wealthy or the less well-to- do? Professor Mike Walden, an economist at North Carolina State University, raises that interesting issue in a recent article about taxation...
Recently my friends John Bellinger and Paul Lewis became the latest Washington policy devotees to advocate the closing of Guantanamo (GITMO). While they make excellent arguments, there are some key points with which I must...
In the military you unfortunately hear about young people dying tragically, but you never really get used to it. That’s why I was shocked and deeply saddened when I heard this week about...
Tristan Wimmer is a man with a plan – and it’s a great one. The former Marine sniper’s proposal for an indoor climbing gym in the Pittsburgh area recently won top honors (and $5,000)...
Over on the Cipher Brief my friend Rachel Stohl of the Stimson Center has a new essay (“Trump Drone Policy Taking Shape”) in which she expresses concerns about what she thinks the new administration’s...
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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