When I published Some summer 2026 reading suggestions…and more! I said popular Lawfire® contributor Maggie McGinnis would be writing a review of Sarah Isgur’s new book, Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty...
At this year’s Judge Advocate Association (JAA)/Judge Advocate’s Foundation 2026 Awards Dinner, General Joseph L Votel, USA (Ret.) was the special guest speaker. Though I wasn’t able to attend, I heard great things about...
In the war against Iran, U.S. forces struck over 13,660 targets, but attention has focused on the allegation that one of those strikes hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, which was located on an...
The war with Iran has raised a number of issues in the law of naval warfare (see e.g., here). Today, we add the perspective of a new contributor to Lawfire®, Himanil Raina. He grapples with...
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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