Who Counts as a Combatant: The Law Governing Lawful Military Targets International law tightly limits who may be targeted in armed conflict. Civilians are protected from attack unless they...
When the Court Doesn’t Close: What Christmas Means Inside the Military Justice System Christmas does not pause the military justice system. Speedy trial deadlines under the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
From Allegation to Prosecution: The Military Case Against Maj. Blaine McGraw The Army has formally preferred 61 criminal specifications against Maj. Blaine McGraw, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Fort...
US Military Conducts Strike on Another Suspected Drug Boat as Probe into the First Strike Begins U.S. Southern Command says it has conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, following a...
Civilian Office, Military Obligations: What the Kelly Investigation Reveals Senator Mark Kelly faces a Pentagon review after appearing in a video urging troops to reject illegal orders while using his...
Airman Accused in International Murder-Kidnapping Conspiracy Targeting Haitian Island Federal prosecutors say a young Air Force enlistee and a Texas civilian planned to recruit vulnerable people, buy weapons...
The Debate Over ‘Illegal Orders’ Misses the One Group That Can’t Speak: Today’s Troops The national back-and-forth over what public leaders can or shouldn’t say about “illegal orders” has dominated headlines for...
When Lawmakers Lecture the Military: Why the “Unlawful Orders” Video Invites Confusion A group of Democratic lawmakers released a video telling service members they must refuse unlawful orders, a message that is...
The Feres Doctrine, Part III: Calls For Reform Feres has survived for decades despite criticism from judges across the ideological spectrum and repeated attempts in...
The Feres Doctrine, Part II: The Human Cost Behind the legal phrase “incident to service” are families left without justice. From a Navy nurse who died in childbirth to...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
