Gary D. Brown | |
Nationality: | American |
Known For: | Cyber operations scholarship and blowing the whistle on government waste at Guantanamo |
Notable Works: | State Cyberspace Operations: Proposing a Cyber Response Framework |
Occupation: | Lawyer, USAF officer |
Colonel Gary D. Brown is an American lawyer and former officer in the United States Air Force. He was the official U.S. observer to the drafting of the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare (2013)[1] [2] and is a member of the International Group of Experts that authored Tallinn Manual 2.0 (2017).[3] Professor Brown also appeared as the legal expert in the documentary film Zero Days (2016).
Year | Degree | Institution | |
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1984 | University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri | ||
1987 | University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, Nebraska | ||
1988 | Cambridge University, England | ||
1994 | Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama | ||
2000 | Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama | ||
2005 | Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama |
2017 | Out of the Loop | Temple International & Comparative Law Journal | |
2019 | Commentary on the Law of Cyber Operations and the DoD Law of War Manual | Chapter in The United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual | |
2020 | State Cyberspace Operations: Proposing a Cyber Response Framework | RUSI Occasional Paper | |
2020 | International Law and Cyber Conflict | Chapter in Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity First Edition | |
2021 | If You Think AI Won't Eclipse Humanity, You're Probably Just a Human | William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal |
In 2017 Brown was appointed the legal advisor to a Guantanamo military commission's newly appointed Convening authority, Harvey Rishikof.
Rishikof and Brown's appointments were terminated in early 2018. Observers commented that their termination suggested a disagreement between the pair and their superiors at the Pentagon.
In July 2020 Brown told National Public Radio that he and Rishikof had been negotiating plea agreements with the lawyers of the men facing charges. They'd take the death penalty off the table, if the suspects agreed to plead guilty and accept a sentence of life imprisonment.
In 2019 Brown formally filed a whistleblower report alleging substantial government waste, at Guantanamo. According to Brown, operating costs at Guantanamo had been $6 billion.