Today’s post is something of a follow-up to our recent discussion about the U.S. airstrikes on the drone capabilities of Iranian-backed militias (see here). Professor Hitoshi Nasu of the University of Exeter examines the...
Yesterday President Biden ordered airstrikes on what the Pentagon described as “operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq” in order to ”disrupt and deter” an “ongoing...
Registration for Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security’s (LENS) Annual National Security Law conference is smashing all our records, and we are expecting the largest number of attendees in our 26-year history. ...
Does the media give you what you need to know about critical national security issues? If you think it does, you may be disappointed in a story (“As U.S. air war in Afghanistan surged,...
In today’s post I’m very pleased to present Adrienne Jackson’s review of “Hunting The Caliphate: America’s War on ISIS and the Dawn of the Strike Cell” by retired Army Major General Dana Pittard and...
The front page of yesterday’s Washington Times carries a story by Ben Wolfgang entitled (online) “Air Force looks for high tech fixes to ‘geriatric’ fleet of fighters in race vs. China.” Mr. Wolfgang’s excellent...
In a recent post, “Breaking the Silence on Civilian Casualties from U.S. Air Strikes in Somalia,” Amnesty International official Daphne Eviatar extols her organization’s new report which claims to have “documented 14 civilians killed,...
At the Present and Future of Airpower conference at the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland last May, I spoke with Chrome360’s Catriona Oliphant...
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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