With rattled governors calling out the National Guard, politicians demanding the mobilization of the military, pundits characterizing the coronavirus emergency as a national security threat, analysts claiming that “battling a pandemic is a job...
The case of Navy Chief Eddie Gallagher took another twist when the Navy’s announced that it intended to initiate an administrative personnel process for a “forced conversion” of Gallagher’s occupational rating. Translation: this could...
On the heels of the President’s proclamation of a national emergency at the southern border, 16 states filed a lawsuit opposing it. Putting aside the politics of the issue, I think the law involved is...
On January 1st a variety of significant modifications to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (or “UCMJ” codified at 10 U.S.C. § 801, et. seq.) became effective, but one thing that did not change...
The Trump administration’s newly-designated Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has been met with disapproval in some quarters because of his pre-appointment statements criticizing aspects of the ongoing investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Consequently,...
I have much agreement with my friend Mark Nevitt’s excellent post addressing some of the issues associated with the use of the military at the border. Unfortunately, in his essay he relies upon the...
As Lawfire readers know, one of the purposes of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) is to develop the next generation of national security leaders. To that end, at the LENS Conference this year...
The deployment of up to 4,000 National Guard troops to the southern border has garnered not just political controversy, but also discussion about the applicable law. For example, can Governor Jerry Brown restrict California National Guard troops...
I have to disagree with the essay (“The Downsides of Bombing Syria”) authored by my friends, professors Jack Goldsmith and Oona Hathaway, in which they insist that a possible U.S. strike in response to the recent...
America’s command and control system has operated in a way that has helped deter the use of nuclear weapons for more than seventy years. However, over on Lawfare, Professors Richard Betts and Matt Waxman...
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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