Given the President’s announced withdrawal from Afghanistan, Memorial Day this year has special poignancy. The holiday does commemorate all servicemembers who have fallen, but in light of the announcement, one cannot help but to...
As many Lawfire® readers know, there is a controversial proposal in Congress to radically change the Uniform Code of Military Justice by outsourcing to staff legal officers key aspects of what historically has been the...
Today we continue our examination of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) new stance on autonomous weapons with an essay by my friend, Richmond Law’s Dr. Rebecca Crootof. (You may recall...
As Lawfire® readers know from a previous post (“Can troops be ordered to take a COVID vaccine? A guest post analyzes the law“) there is a clear legal path for the Secretary of Defense,...
President Biden has announced that all U.S. troops and other personnel will withdraw, without conditions, from Afghanistan by September 11th. Although the decision, we are told, was contrary to military advice, the purpose of...
Today’s post is by Lawfire® regular, Cornell Law’s Brian L. Cox. Brian tackles the International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) new position on the development and fielding of autonomous weapons. Essentially, the ICRC...
I’m writing to report the very sad news that Col. W. Hays Parks, USMC (Ret.) passed away last week. Not only was he a friend of many decades, he was also a legendary international...
What’s it like to be a cyber lawyer in America’s national security enterprise? What kind of issues do they grapple with? Do you know what “Rickrolled” means in the cyber context? Our guest post...
Should every challenge America faces be categorized as a “national security” priority? If so, the country is in for trouble as the authentic national security threats need the full focus of America’s national security...
′Should mental health practitioners give the media opinions about the mental health of public figures they’ve never examined? Do we want such ‘diagnoses’ to become the next weapon of political warfare? Would doing so...
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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