Sept. 18 − To the Editor: As a retired, career, military officer, I found a recently published letter to the editor by a retired officer entitled "Military must stand firm when faced with unlawful ...
Let’s get the test result first and then we can learn the lesson. Soldiers must obey lawful orders. Soldiers must refuse to follow unlawful orders. It is the law despite what the Commander-in-Chief ...
Members of the U.S. military have the legal right to refuse orders they believe are unlawful, but they risk violating military laws of obedience if the order is in fact lawful, experts in military law ...
Charles "Cully" Stimson is the deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, the manager of the National Security Law Program, a senior legal fellow, and a senior ...