Recently my friends John Bellinger and Paul Lewis became the latest Washington policy devotees to advocate the closing of Guantanamo (GITMO). While they make excellent arguments, there are some key points with which I must...
Today I participated along with Human Rights Watch’s Sarah Margon on NPR’s Morning Edition in a segment (“Civilians in Mosul Remain Trapped”) hosted by Rachel Martin. We discussed the issue of civilian casualties in...
With a Guantanamo (GITMO) detainee’s counsel indicating last week that he “had no objection to his client’s facing trial in federal court, as opposed to in the military commission,” one has to wonder if...
I have long believed that it is a melancholy but inescapable truth that in too many cases it takes litigation to get powerful corporate interests to do what they ought to do in the...
One of the panels at the recently completed Aspen Security Forum was entitled “Europe in Crisis” and this naturally involved discussion of the refugee issue. According to the BBC News over 1.8 million refugees...
When Dallas police killed the alleged cop-killing sniper Micah Johnson with an explosive-bearing remote-controlled robot, Police Chief David Brown said “[w]e saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a...
One of the more interesting facts related to the debate over the U.S.’s use of drones as an important part of an overall counter-terrorism strategy is found in a Pew Research Center poll from...
A discussion surrounding the military role that the U.S. should play following the terrorist attacks in Paris.
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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