Today’s post is another in our series about fascinating private sector opportunities for those interested in national security matters. We are extremely fortunate that Ms. Lee Tiedrich is willing to share some strategies for...
In a democracy that wants and needs a non-partisan military, shouldn’t active-duty servicemembers avoid creating, in advance of a divisive and hotly-contested election (or any election), the impression that the armed forces has a...
Recently the media (see here and here) reported on a move by several civilian attorneys and former judge advocates to offer what they describe as “second opinions” to “military and National Guard members who...
In a recent op-ed Center for a New American Security‘s (CNAS) senior fellow and technology director Paul Scharre accused Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark Esper of propounding a “convenient lie.” Retired Army lieutenant general...
Not long ago a Washington Post reporter asked me about the use of the National Guard during what the Post described as “mayhem” in the District last June in the aftermath of the tragic...
Is a recent post Andy Wright, who served in the Obama White House Counsel’s office, worries that the July 9th Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Mazars will operate to “give the attorney-client privilege...
Civilian attorneys have all kinds of organizational “clients,” but have you had a chance to learn much about the ones military lawyers serve? Today’s post by Air Force judge advocates (or “JAGs”) Majors (s)...
A lot of law students and practicing lawyers have an interest in national security matters, but for a variety of reasons, the government’s military and civilian national security enterprise (see here) isn’t quite the...
One of my students asked me about a rather overwrought news story that headlined “Trump’s illness raises national security concerns as Pentagon looks to reassure public.” While the health of the President should always...
Today’s post is by previous Lawfire® contributor, my friend Brian Lee Cox, who is an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School, a visiting scholar at Queen’s Law, and a retired U.S. Army...
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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