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) and is a member of the International Group of Experts that authored Tallinn Manual 2.0 (2017). Professor Brown also appeared as the legal expert in the documentary film Zero Days (2016). He currently leads the cyber policy concentration at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.https://bush.tamu.edu/faculty/gbrown/
Academic career + Academic career Year Degree Institution 1984 B.Sc. University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri 1987 J.D. University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, Nebraska 1988 LL.M. 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
Publications +PublicationsYearTitlePublished in2017Out of the LoopTemple International & Comparative Law Journal2019Commentary on the Law of Cyber Operations and the DoD Law of War ManualChapter in The United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual2020State Cyberspace Operations: Proposing a Cyber Response FrameworkRUSI Occasional Paper2020International Law and Cyber ConflictChapter in Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity First Edition2021If You Think AI Won't Eclipse Humanity, You're Probably Just a HumanWilliam and Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Guantanamo military commission
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.
Whistleblower
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.
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