When I wrote about my summer reading recommendations (“Some summer reading recommendations (especially for those interested in national security!”, I mentioned that I hoped to have full-blown reviews for you in the coming weeks...
In today’s post my friend (and, really, mentor of many years) retired colonel Dave Graham reviews Yale’s Sam Moyn’s provocative new book “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,.” I think...
When a reference on the law of war touts itself as a “Commander’s Handbook” it gets my attention, especially when it come with an imprimatur from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). ...
Today’s guest post is a review of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, “The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War.” The reviewer, Colonel Cliff Krieger, USAF (Ret.),...
Want a really important (yet also entertaining) summer read? I’d recommend 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, a new bestseller penned by my war college classmate and retired NATO commander Admiral Jim...
Today’s post is by my brilliant research assistant Kristen Casey. You’ve seen her work before (see here here, and here), and today she reviews P.W. Singer’s and August Cole’s new book, Burn In: A...
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...
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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