Yesterday President Biden ordered airstrikes on what the Pentagon described as “operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq” in order to ”disrupt and deter” an “ongoing...
The Biden administration has announced it will keep in place the Trump administration’s January 2020 landmine policy as it studies whether or not to make changes. In my experience, there’s a lot of confusion...
The looting and theft of art has been a vile feature of armed conflict throughout history. Movies like 2014’s The Monuments Men brought to the public’s attention the evil of Nazi art thievery during...
If a commercial satellite company supplies photo intelligence used by a customer-nation to launch attacks on the forces of another country, what might the targeted forces do, consistent with international law, to stop such...
This coming week registration will open for 26th Annual Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) conference which will be presented via Zoom on 25-27 February, but we want to give Lawfire® readers...
Duke Law’s 26th Annual Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) conference Friday, 26 Feb, and Saturday morning, 27 Feb 2021, will be virtual, but awesome speakers will participate (via Zoom). Registration won’t open until...
Civilian attorneys have all kinds of organizational “clients,” but have you had a chance to learn much about the ones military lawyers serve? Today’s post by Air Force judge advocates (or “JAGs”) Majors (s)...
Today’s post is by previous Lawfire® contributor, my friend Brian Lee Cox, who is an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School, a visiting scholar at Queen’s Law, and a retired U.S. Army...
Does the media give you what you need to know about critical national security issues? If you think it does, you may be disappointed in a story (“As U.S. air war in Afghanistan surged,...
Today’s post is an extremely important one as it gives us the often hard-to-get warfighter’s perspective on the much-discussed topic of ‘“lawfare” and legal operations. Air Force Maj. Gen. Barre R. Seguin is the...
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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