A week ago, I had the honor of being a guest on West Point’s Modern Warfare Institute’s (MWI) Urban Warfare Project Podcast hosted by John Spencer. As Lawfire® readers know, I consider John to...
Today’s post is by a new Lawfire® writer, Charlie Kels. I’ve admired his superb scholarship for quite some time, and his contribution today extends that record of excellence. In his post, Charlie takes on...
Today we welcome another new contributor to Lawfire®: Major Grant W. McDowell, USMC. Major McDowell is currently assigned as an instructor at the Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) School. His post is a ‘call...
An energetic group of Duke Law students had a unique opportunity last week not only to learn about the scope of national security law, but also to personally meet several of the leaders in...
We’ve heard a lot about drones in the Ukraine conflict, but what about their use in the Israel-Hamas war? Specifically, to what extent has Hamas, a terrorist organization, been able to leverage this technology…or...
Today we’re fortunate to hear from Lawfire® contributor and renowned law of armed conflict (LOAC) expert, David Graham. Dave critiques Geoff Corn’s post “The Disproportionate Confusion About Proportionality,” and mine, “Why Israeli operations in...
Today we introduce a new contributor to Lawfire®, Air Force Reserve Lt Col Jay Jackson. Writing in his personal capacity Lt Col Jackson, gives us something of a primer on the concept of “direct...
I hope you are enjoying Veterans Day, and the freedom we have in our country! I’m proud – and grateful – to be among the 16.2 million living veterans in the United States, and...
Today popular Lawfire® contributor Colonel Ted Richard treats us to another of his thoughtful and scholarly analyses, and this one could not be more timely. Writing in his personal capacity he grapples with the...
Can an unwilling President be obliged to wage war? The is the knotty–but not unimaginable–question with which Duke Law 3L Andrea L. R. Pillai grapples in her note, “Hawks and Doves: Evaluating Presidential Powers...
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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