Gitmo and the lawyers!

[Hownowcow]

It was almost two years ago that there was a sudden flurry of articles in military professional pubs voicing second thoughts about the effectiveness of Gitmo. With the shift we've had in Congress, and presidential elections rushing fast upon us, I believe there's a lot more pointed discussion of the issue coming....

You are absolutely right in your prediction that more is coming on this. I just returned from St. Louis and the "press sheet inspection" for the October issue of Joint Force Quarterly. On page 117 is a piece by Kyle Teamey that deals with detainees and counterinsurgency (this is already on our website). There will be three more articles on this issue in the January edition, one of which makes a case that is quite contrary to the 3rd place student essay that you cited from JFQ #39. In fact, Colonel Jim Terry's piece: "Habeas Corpus and the Detention of Enemy Combatants in the Global War on Terror" capably deconstructs the emotional arguments against the GTMO detention facility.