In an effort to use the COVID lockdown as productively as possible, I took on some long-deferred projects, including getting a few old photos professionally restored. One of these was a 1975 group photo...
I’m really excited to tell you that the video of my ‘fireside chat’ with former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy is now available for viewing/listening (here). She was among the world-class...
It’s hard to believe, but this month – thanks to the support of you, the readers – we celebrate Lawfire’s five-year anniversary. Since March 2016, 350 posts have been published. If you’re curious as...
Do you want to get up to speed on the latest issues in cybersecurity? If so, listen/watch the discussion by the world renown experts who spoke at LEN’s recently-completed 26th Annual National Security Law...
Today’s guest post is by Major Dimitri J. Facaros, a U.S. Army Judge Advocate, who offers fresh ideas as to how the Department of Defense in general, and the Army in specific, might credibly...
World-class speakers and panelists blessed LEN’s just-completed 26th Annual National Security Law conference. We could not have been more honored to have retired Marine general and former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis deliver the conference’s...
Today’s guest post comes to us from Tobias Gibson who is Chair of the Political Science Department and the Director of the Security Studies Program at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. If that institution...
The looting and theft of art has been a vile feature of armed conflict throughout history. Movies like 2014’s The Monuments Men brought to the public’s attention the evil of Nazi art thievery during...
If a commercial satellite company supplies photo intelligence used by a customer-nation to launch attacks on the forces of another country, what might the targeted forces do, consistent with international law, to stop such...
Can economic sanctions really work? Is the U.S. as effective as it might be when it finds itself needing to utilize what might be called a “financial warfare” strategy? In the latest addition to...
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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