Today’s post welcomes a new contributors to Lawfire®, Army Major Hannah Miller and Air Force Major Ashley Johnson. Writing in their personal capacities, Majors Miller and Johnson discuss the growing problem of unauthorized drone...
Today Lawfire® contributor and LENS conference speaker Dawn Zoldi addresses something that has been on the minds of a lot of people lately: what can we do to protect ourselves against hostile drones? The...
Is the U.S. doing enough about the Mexican drug cartels that are fueling the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans? Should the U.S. use force against them in Mexico? Under what circumstances, if...
Today’s post about drone warfare by former Canadian Judge Advocate Ken Watkin could not be more timely. This morning’s New York Times has an excellent front page article (“Drones Define the Deadliest Phase of...
Concerned about the proliferation of drones, but aren’t sure you know enough about them? Do you want a better idea of the law concerning their use domestically? Is anything being done to address the...
We’ve heard a lot about drones in the Ukraine conflict, but what about their use in the Israel-Hamas war? Specifically, to what extent has Hamas, a terrorist organization, been able to leverage this technology…or...
Last July a story in the Washington Post headlined “The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI” and went on to explain that: “The design and software innovations, as...
Shortbursts are an occasional feature of Lawfire® designed to provide quick updates on a variety of matters. Former LENS Speaker nominated to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The President has nominated...
In today’s post we re-publish a column by our friend Dawn Zoldi who has graciously permitted us to do so. As you will see, Dawn – who is one of the nation’s foremost experts...
Today’s post in another installment in Lawfire’s® mini-series on the airstrike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri. In this essay Georgetown Law professor Mitt Regan analyses the potential impact of al-Zawahiri’s death on al-Qaeda and, in turn,...
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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