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 –...
Since the January 6 Capitol siege, many media and even academic outlets have published articles that paint a disturbing picture suggesting the active duty and veteran ranks are virtually infested with domestic extremists. But...
I am excited to share with you another video from LENS’ recently completed 26th Annual National Security Law conference. Erin Wirtanen, the Chief Counsel for the Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) for the Central...
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,...
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are emerging as one of the most daunting medical issues of the 21st century. Addressing that challenge is not, however, advanced when it becomes mired in misinformation and politicization. Unfortunately,...
Last week the President took some controversial actions in several military justice cases and – as is so often is the case these days – the press doesn’t get the story quite right. For...
Everyone is rightly concerned about the dangers extremists can pose, but the post (“Addressing the National Security Threat of White Supremacist Terrorism”) by Jonathan Greenblatt and George Selim, two officials of the Anti-Defamation League...
At the end of World War II, some ten million current and former members of Nazi Germany’s and Imperialist Japan’s armed forces survived the conflict. Indeed, some Germans fought on for months, and the...
The military tries hard to stay above political frays and maintain its reputation for genuine non-partisanship. That effort – which was never easy – is even more difficult today given that the Administration and...
This week I attended a terrific conference sponsored by the Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy entitled “Blurred Lines: Civil-Military Relations and Modern War.” One of the issues my panel aimed to...
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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