With COVID-19 dominating the news these days, we can sometimes forget there are young Americans deployed ‘downrange’ for the fight against the still-dangerous Islamic State remnants – and to stand guard against Iran and...
Today we honor a true hero of American history, civil rights icon Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In my mind, his “I Have a Dream” speech is the one of the most inspirational pieces of...
At the end of World War II, some ten million current and former members of Nazi Germany’s and Imperialist Japan’s armed forces survived the conflict. Indeed, some Germans fought on for months, and the...
Dr. Aurel Sari and Professor Michael Schmitt, two of the world’s most prominent law of armed conflict (LOAC) scholars, have penned an important essay that Lawfire is pleased to host. It addresses a fundamental LOAC tenet...
Yesterday’s New York Times report about civilian deaths from airstrikes in Mosul is, unfortunately, likely not the last such story as coalition forces close in on the Islamic State (ISIS) in both Iraq and...
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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