Recently the President warned business leaders that Russia has “a very sophisticated cyber capability” and “may be planning a cyberattack against us.” I agree, but I also think any such cyber-attack may not necessarily...
What are the strategic implications of the proliferation of commercial space-based imaging and communications’ satellites? Lawfire® readerrs know we’ve addressed on several occasions the legal implications of using commercial space assets for military purposes...
I am very pleased to welcome today’s guest essayist as he’s introducing to Lawfire® readers his extraordinarily provocative and important new law review article about U.S. space policy. In it he highlights an aspect...
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 –...
Peace is something we think a lot about in connection with national security. We hope and pray for peace with other countries, but also in our country, in our communities and in our homes...
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 conference will sell out fast! On February 28-29, the 25th Annual National Security Law Conference of Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security will take place and you’ll definitely want to be...
With the President’s announcement of the formation of a Space Force, renewed attention has arisen about the law applicable to military space operations. John Goehring is a major in the Air Force Reserve who is involved...
This week CNN reported that President Trump “signaled once again…that he wants to create a new branch of the US military dedicated to fighting in outer space.” Although no one questions the importance of...
Shannon Vavra, a reporter with an intriguing new media outlet Axios, quotes me in her new story (“The U.S. Air Force is preparing to fight in space”) about what the Air Force terms as...
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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