What could Congress’ repeal of the military vaccine mandate mean for morale and discipline in the armed forces? Should those who were separated for failing to obey vaccine orders be reinstated? These and related...
As Lawfire® readers know from a previous post (“Can troops be ordered to take a COVID vaccine? A guest post analyzes the law“) there is a clear legal path for the Secretary of Defense,...
Surprisingly, the Pentagon’s answer to the question above seems to be “no.” Let’s unpack this a bit as the current situation is troubling…and rather inexplicable. Yesterday the Military Times reported that only “about a...
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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