There are few more timely topics these days than the domestic use of drones, and at our 24th Annual National Security Law Conference, we heard from one of the nation’s top experts, my friend...
In this morning’s Washington Times there’s a report about the drone attack on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. As the Times accurately points out, “the video of panicked security officers breaking ranks to escape the...
Over on the Cipher Brief my friend Rachel Stohl of the Stimson Center has a new essay (“Trump Drone Policy Taking Shape”) in which she expresses concerns about what she thinks the new administration’s...
Many individuals and groups are quick to criticize the U.S.-led coalition when airstrikes aimed at defeating the Islamic State sometimes cause civilian deaths. What they never seem to take into consideration is what I’ve...
Yesterday, at the direction of the President the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) issued the much-anticipated “Summary of Information Regarding U.S. Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Areas of Active Hostilities” about civilian casualties from drone strikes...
Drone critics seem to be getting ever more desperate to delegitimize what is increasingly proving to be one of the most effective tactics against terrorist organizations: neutralizing their leaders. For a while the critics...
My friend and colleague Professor Jeff Powell has written a terrific new book entitled Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of the U.S. Drone War. Last week the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security co-hosted...
One of the most frustrating things about the drone debate is that so many of the critics (in the media especially) complain about the government’s alleged lack of transparency, yet fail themselves to give...
One of the more interesting facts related to the debate over the U.S.’s use of drones as an important part of an overall counter-terrorism strategy is found in a Pew Research Center poll from...
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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