Can military academies have admissions policies that, if utilized by civilian educational institutions, would be considered unconstitutional? On June 29th the Supreme Court decided an important case about affirmative action admission policies that indirectly...
When people speak about the strategic use of airpower, it is easy to think of long-range bombers dropping high-explosives on enemy targets. But 75 years ago today an operation began that became one of...
79 years ago today, the greatest amphibious assault in the history of warfare took place in order to liberate Europe and to save the world from Nazi evil. A 2019 article in the New...
Are you assembling your reading list for the summer? I am, so I thought perhaps you’d be interested in some ideas. If you are new to the national security arena, may I invite you...
Today we commemorate one of the most important events of World War II: D-Day. 78 years ago thousands of U.S. and Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe and to end...
Today’s guest post is by Dr. David E. Johnson, a retired Army colonel and a principal researcher at the RAND corporation. After reading his essay I am coming around to idea that the President’s...
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...
In today’s post retired Army colonel turned historian Bill Knightly treats us to a brief tutorial on Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on NATO’s eastern flank. Notwithstanding all the media discourse about Russia’s threats 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...
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...
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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