Last July a story in the Washington Post headlined “The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI” and went on to explain that: “The design and software innovations, as...
Shortbursts is an occasional feature of Lawfire® designed to provide quick updates on a variety of matters. Lots to catch up about in this one! Base name changes finally happening In early June, Ft....
Some pundits, academics, and others have long been insisting that U.S. civil-military relations are in “crisis” a claim which, as Rosa Brooks has noted, is a “a recurring feature of American politics”. They will...
In January of 2022, Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Lloyd Austin announced that he was directing the Department of Defense (DoD) to develop a Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP). In August of...
Could using a cell phone get a civilian lawfully targeted in war? Maybe. The Ukraine conflict has seen many uses of technology–new and old–that are relevant not only with respect to the current fighting,...
In the first update of its Law of War (LoW) Manual since 2016, the Department of Defense (DoD) reversed itself on a key interpretation of international law. This post contends that while it may...
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.
Read more
|