Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Major General Charles J. Dunlap Jr. (born June 16, 1950) is a retired military officer who served as the Deputy Judge Advocate General at the U.S. Air Force Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He retired from this position in February 2010.^[1]

As of 2018, Dunlap is executive director of Duke Law School's Centre on Law, Ethics and National Security.

In his capacity as deputy judge advocate general, Dunlap assisted the Judge Advocate General in the professional oversight of more than 2,200 judge advocates, 350 civilian attorneys, 1,400 enlisted paralegals and 550 civilians assigned worldwide. In addition to overseeing an array of military justice, operational, international and civil law functions, Dunlap provided legal advice to the Air Staff and commanders at all levels.

Dunlap was commissioned through the AFROTC program at St. Joseph's University in May 1972, and was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1975. He has deployed to support various operations in the Middle East and Africa, including Provide Relief, Restore Hope, Vigilant Warrior, Desert Fox, Bright Star, and Enduring Freedom. He has led military-to-military delegations to Uruguay, the Czech Republic, South Africa and Colombia.

Dunlap speaks widely on legal and national security issues, and he is published in Air and Space Power Journal, Peacekeeping & International Relations, Parameters, Proceedings, Military Review, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Air Force Times, the Wake Forest Law Review, the Air Force Law Review, the Tennessee Law Review, the Strategic Review, and the War on the Rocks foreign policy and national security platform,^[2] among others. Prior to assuming his current position, General Dunlap served as the staff judge advocate at Headquarters Air Combat Command.

Dunlap is currently a professor at Duke University School of Law, where he teaches courses on national security law and the use of force in international law, among other topics.^[3]

Dunlap wrote an essay in 1992 called The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012,^[4] presented as a work written by a jailed anti-coup military officer 20 years into the future, in which he asserted that the blurring of the military role of the armed forces into civilian missions might be dangerous to democracy and civilian government. Douglas V. Mastriano's 2001 master's thesis, which was written as a response to Dunlap's essay and which similarly presented itself as a work by a military officer of the future, argued to the contrary; Mastriano claimed that only the military could save the United States from "morally debauched" civilian leaders.^[5]

• January 1976 – April 1977, assistant staff judge advocate, 2nd Combat Group, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana
• April 1977 – May 1978, assistant staff judge advocate, 51st Combat Group, Osan Air Base, South Korea
• May 1978 – December 1978, chief, Civil Law Division, 20th Combat Group, Royal Air ForceUpper Heyford, England
• December 1978 – March 1980, chief, Military Justice Division, 20th Tactical Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Upper Heyford, England
• March 1980 – July 1983, faculty member, Air Force Judge Advocate General School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
• July 1983 – January 1984, chief, Military Justice Division, Air Force Judge Advocate General School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
• January 1984 – July 1984, student, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia
• July 1984 – July 1987, staff judge advocate, 97th Bombardment Wing, Blytheville AFB, Arkansas
• July 1987 – June 1989, circuit military judge, Air Force Legal Services Agency, Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C.
• 1989年6月～1991年8月、米国空軍本部一般法務部人事法務課長、ワシントンD.C.
• 1991年8月～1992年7月、ワシントンD.C.、フォート・レスリー・J・マクネア、国立戦争大学在学
• 1992年7月～1995年1月、米国中央軍副法務官、マクディル空軍基地（フロリダ州）
• 1995年1月～1998年7月、米国戦略軍法務官、オファット空軍基地（ネブラスカ州）
• 1998年7月～2000年7月、第9空軍法務官、サウスカロライナ州ショー空軍基地
• 2000年7月～2002年2月、航空教育訓練軍団司令部法務官、テキサス州ランドルフ空軍基地
• 2002年2月～2006年5月、航空戦闘軍団司令部法務官、バージニア州ラングレー空軍基地
• 2006年5月～2010年2月、米国空軍本部（ワシントンD.C.）副法務官

• 平等主義

Sources

•  This article incorporates public domain material from Major General Charles J. Dunlap Jr. biography. United States Air Force.