Given the controversial decision by the Administration to furnish cluster munitions to Ukraine, Lawfire® will host a mini forum on this multifaceted issue. In this installment we hear from Robert “Butch” Bracknell who will...
When people speak about the strategic use of airpower, it is easy to think of long-range bombers dropping high-explosives on enemy targets. But 75 years ago today an operation began that became one of...
Today I am very pleased to introduce another new Lawfire®contributor, Major Alec Rice, of the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps. Writing in his personal capacity, Major Rice explains to us the history and...
Tolstoy is famously reported as saying “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” Immediately before missiles and bombs struck and Russian tanks and troops invaded, a poll suggested...
More than three months ago when I wrote “Brace for Impact” Americans should prepare for terrible scenes coming out of Afghanistan, I said I hoped I was wrong. Sadly, as yesterday’s horrific events amply...
Today’s post is by Lawfire® regular, Cornell Law’s Brian L. Cox, but before we get to his superb essay, let’s discuss the broader context of the underlying issue. As mentioned last week in introducing...
President Biden has announced that all U.S. troops and other personnel will withdraw, without conditions, from Afghanistan by September 11th. Although the decision, we are told, was contrary to military advice, the purpose of...
In a rather polemical blog post entitled “Why No One Ever Really Wins a Proxy War,” Brittany Benowitz, Chief Counsel of the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights, and Alicia Ceccanese, a Legal...
With COVID-19 dominating the news these days, we can sometimes forget there are young Americans deployed ‘downrange’ for the fight against the still-dangerous Islamic State remnants – and to stand guard against Iran and...
How does the U.S. ensure that the weapons and defense services it provides allies and partners will be used in a way consistent with U.S. and international law, not to mention America’s values? Moreover,...
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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