Last week the Defense Intelligence Agency released a report, “Challenges to Security in Space — 2022” which points out that the “combined in-orbit space fleets of China and Russia grew more than 70% in...
Today’s post is the second of a three-part series by Air Force Colonel Ted Richard. He expertly rebuts an effort among some academics and others to characterize as a matter of customary international law,...
Today I am extremely pleased to welcome a new Lawfire® contributor, Air Force Col Ted Richard. He is taking on the rebuttal of an effort among some academics and others to characterize as a matter...
I am very pleased to welcome today’s guest essayist as he’s introducing to Lawfire® readers his extraordinarily provocative and important new law review article about U.S. space policy. In it he highlights an aspect...
In another addition to our Ukraine series, LTC Blake Williams further explores an issue briefly raised in the post The Ukraine crisis and the international law of armed conflict (LOAC): some Q & A, ...
With intense fighting underway in the Ukraine, this post in our series is designed to give brief answers to some law of armed conflict questions this invasion and subsequent crisis has generated. They are...
How can the U.S. and rule-of-law democracies counter increasingly sophisticated and weaponized disinformation? How should they wage “information warfare” during period of putative peace? What are some of the rewards – and risks –...
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...
There has been a lot of reportage recently that alleges civilian harm in various U.S. operations in the Middle East. In too many instances, however, the explanation (if any) of the applicable law is...
The normally very highly-reliable Congressional Research Service (CRS) seems to have missed the mark a bit with its recent (Dec 10) report on the “Use of Force in Cyberspace.” There are certainly aspects of...
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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