This year, we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, and my friend Bill Knightly, a historian with special expertise in the Revolution (and Lawfire contributor!), helps us remember how challenging it was for the Revolution to...
As you finalize plans to celebrate the Fourth of July, I hope you include time to appreciate what Independence Day is supposed to commemorate. The National Archives has some interesting history about the Declaration...
Veterans Day is a special day for America’s approximately 15.8 million veterans. It is, the Veterans Administration (VA) tells us, a “celebration to honor America’s veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness...
Need to read something inspiring and meaningful? If so, today’s, post is for you. Lawfire® contributor Bill Knightly reviews a new book, John Stansifer’s “No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father...
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...
With tens of thousands of Russian troops on the Ukraine border, and President Biden telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the US and its allies “will respond decisively if Russia further invades,” this highly-volatile...
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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