Why JAGs Won't Be Prosecuting PMCs
If you are waiting for a future episode of JAG where military lawyers try a PMC, don't hold your breath.
If you are waiting for a future episode of JAG where military lawyers try a PMC, don't hold your breath.
AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 12.09.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon says sex with animals would still be illegal even if Congress repeals a military rule on sodomy. Conservative groups are u...
Posted 01.01.2012
A 22-year-old soldier has been arrested on suspicion of espionage. The Army Times reported that William C. Millay, a military policeman from Kentu...
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 11.20.2011
"Don't ask, don't tell" -- the policy and even the mere phrase -- says much about who we are as Americans. What we do in its wake will help shape what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century -- well beyond the rise and fall of this bizarre and convoluted law.
Jane Fonda | Posted 09.21.2011
It is unconscionable that extremist groups circulate letters which accuse me of horrific things, saying that I am a traitor. These lies have circulated for almost 40 years, continually reopening the wound of the Vietnam War.
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
Manning is held in maximum custody, alone in a six by 12 feet cell. He is not allowed sheets or pillows to sleep with. If he tries to do sit-ups, guards stop him. He's also said to be a threat to himself. His lawyer says that's a ruse.
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's return to an issue I have written about before; namely whether the change in 2007 to the U.S. military's Uniform Code of Military Justice, makin...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's take another look at the applicability of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to private military and security contractors. In 2006 Con...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Was it only four years ago that people were applauding the change Congress made to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), as part of the FY 2007...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
It is common to complain that the while the use of private military contractors (PMC) has grown rapidly in the past decade, the legal apparatus to hol...
David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
In the perpetual debate over legal accountability of, and prosecution if necessary, of private military and security contractors one often sees the ar...
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
Throughout yesterday's hearing, if there was one thing that the prosecution, defense and judge could agree on, it was that there simply is no law to guide many of the situations that come up.
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday morning issued a stunning ruling: that the United States government may seize suspected terrorists outside...
Michael Markarian | Posted 11.17.2011
While serving in Iraq, Army Sgt. Beberg adopted a stray puppy named Ratchet. But the military snatched the pup before he could reach the Baghdad Airport to catch a flight bound for the US.
Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011
He has now earned the ignominious fate of a public "court martial" in polling places all across America on November 4th.
David Isenberg | Posted 02.26.2012