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Today we learned the very sad news that General Colin Powell, “a patriot of unmatched honor and dignity,” passed away. There will no doubt be many wonderful tributes to him, but allow me to...
Today’s guest post is the third in a series of essays examining the Afghanistan disaster (Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here). Today’s author is Adam Oler, a familiar name to those who...
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...
Former Secretary of Defense and retired Marine Corps general Jim Mattis made his views clear about the importance of a commander-centric military justice system earlier this year when he spoke at our 2021 Center...
In an effort to use the COVID lockdown as productively as possible, I took on some long-deferred projects, including getting a few old photos professionally restored. One of these was a 1975 group photo...
I’m really excited to tell you that the video of my ‘fireside chat’ with former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy is now available for viewing/listening (here). She was among the world-class...
World-class speakers and panelists blessed LEN’s just-completed 26th Annual National Security Law conference. We could not have been more honored to have retired Marine general and former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis deliver the conference’s...
Today’s guest post comes to us from Tobias Gibson who is Chair of the Political Science Department and the Director of the Security Studies Program at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. If that institution...
Lawyers as leaders is an increasingly popular topic in contemporary America, so we’re especially fortunate to have retired Air Force lieutenant general Jack Rives with us today to share his thoughts on this vitally...
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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