′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...
Today’s guest post is by Lt Col Charles J Gartland who is the Law Chair Director at the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School. He addresses a subject near and dear to me:...
If you espouse the tenets of one of the world’s largest religions, could the Pentagon still brand you as exhibiting “extremist behavior” even if you break no law or violate any policy? How about...
President Biden calls climate change the “existential threat of our time” Indeed, he says it is our “biggest threat to national security,” and he’s made climate change the “center” of his national security policy....
How will the U.S. keep situational awareness about Afghanistan after U.S. troops leave? Is it even possible? Today’s guest essayist has exactly the right background to help us understand the challenges the intelligence community...
Surprisingly, the Pentagon’s answer to the question above seems to be “no.” Let’s unpack this a bit as the current situation is troubling…and rather inexplicable. Yesterday the Military Times reported that only “about a...
Here at the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security we pride ourselves in having the Nation’s finest ethics presentations at our annual conference, and this year proved to be no exception. At the...
At our recently completed 26th Annual National Security Law Conference, we were honored to have Ms. Alexandra Perina, the Assistant Legal Adviser for Nonproliferation and Arms Control at the U.S. Department of State, give...
Yesterday I was privileged to be part of the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast on the Legal Talk Network where we addressed “Cyberwarfare, U.S./Russia Relations, and Ukraine“ (and, actually, a few more issues!). I was pleased...
The Biden administration has announced it will keep in place the Trump administration’s January 2020 landmine policy as it studies whether or not to make changes. In my experience, there’s a lot of confusion...
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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