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I'm attaching a pdf snip of 4 pages from the 2010 Crim-Law-Deskbook_V-2.pdf (available from CLAMO; navigate from here for the whole manual), which covers Lawfulness of Orders (A through E...

We had Dr Strangelove (released 29 Jan 1964) and the lesser-remembered Fail Safe (released 7 Oct 1964) (on cable a month or so ago), which were of the "Big Boom cuz of Screwup" genre.

We had...

I can't say whether I agree or disagree - not because my new nickname is "John Kerry"; but because I'd have to see the actual proposed legal revisions that incorporate "concepts of qualified immunity...

wm makes an excellent practical point:



It follows along with what I looked at last night. I've not for a long time looked at the question of a conscientious objection to an otherwise lawful...

From Book 8, Ch 6 (1873 Graham trans; Paret's at home and too much to type out anyway) (emphasis added):



The bottom line here is "CIMIC" (Civil-Military Coordination/Cooperation) - in effect,...

Briefly with reference to the articles by Milburn, Breaking Ranks - Dissent and the Military Professional, and Yingling, Breaking Ranks?.

He who disobeys an order takes a legal risk - and may...

since I am not going to be doing legal philosophy. My focus is as a legal practitioner, where I have to look at what the "law" is and how it will be applied today, and a certain amount of prophecy...

might want to slog through this.

Cheers

Mike

We might want to define what each of us means by "selective conscientious objection". I'll start by reference to Conscientious objector - Wiki and its sub-topic, Selective conscientious objection -...

a good professional military force make.

The thread title says the profession of arms. Perhaps, DoDD 3000.05, etc., has added the profession of politics as well. Even if that is so, the military...

and a good evening to everyone else.

I'm not a great fan of DoDD 3000.05 et seq. - believing that the political struggle should largely be handled by civilian agencies (which would require a...

some of the many questions you propound (e.g.):



Unless, of course, you have no opinion re: the answers to them. Somehow, I doubt that is the case.

Regards

Mike

you want to pick up your ruck and move to greener pastures, then do so. It's not my role to push you out or pull you back.

Gentlemen, let's try to get back to the point of the thread.

Regards
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as to this:



but, given DOD Directive 3000.05 (Military Support for Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations) and its progeny, the military has been (and into the...

by Chris Case that this, simply as stated:



constitutes a prescription for either preventive or preemptive war.

Bill's prescription does not necessarily call for a resort to armed force ab...