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Military Law Review
Excerpt: Since 1958 the Military Law Review has been published at The Judge Advocate General?s School United States Army Charlottesville Virginia. The Military Law Review provides a forum for those interested in military law to share the products of their experience and research and it is designed for use by military attorneys in connection with their official duties. Writings offered for publication should be of direct concern and import to military legal scholarship. P...
Excerpt: Since 1958, the Military Law Review has been published at The Judge Advocate General?s School, United States Army, Charlottesville, Virginia. The Military Law Review provides a forum for those interested in military law to share the products of their experience and research, and it is designed for use by military attorneys in connection with their official duties. Writings offered for publication should be of direct concern and import to military legal scholarsh...
Excerpt: Since 1958, the Military Law Review has been published at The Judge Advocate General?s School, U.S. Army, Charlottesville, Virginia. The Military Law Review provides a forum for those interested in military law to share the products of their experience and research, and it is designed for use by military attorneys in connection with their official duties. Writings offered for publication should be of direct concern and import to military legal scholarship. Prefe...
Preface: The Military Law Review is designed to provide a medium for those interested in the field of military law to share the product of their experience and research with their fellow lawyers. Articles should be of direct concern and import in this area of scholarship, and preference will be given to those articles having lasting value as reference material for the military lawyer.
Excerpt: No person subject to this chapter [Code] may interrogate, or request any statement from, an accused or a person suspected of an offense without first informing him of the nature of the accusation and advising him that he does not have to make any statement regarding the offense of which he is accused or suspected and that any statement made by him may be used as evidence against him in a trial by court-martial.? Article 31 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
Excerpt: In January 1968, General Lucius D. Clay was quoted by the Press as having told the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee that ?no future commander is going to fight a war with the weapons of one service.?? This statement was made against a background of suggestions by other responsible and well-informed persons that our defense forces be reorganized so as to provide more ?unified commands,? composed of land, sea, and air units. These views impliedly give recognition ...
Excerpt: A Law of War? General Marshall?s assertion was merely another way of repeating the old adage, ?you have to fight the enemy, not sue him.? This, of course, may be quite true, but it does not follow that law has no place at all in a modern war. Clearly, the role of law on a battlefield is by no means certain and one risks being dubbed naive who refers to a ?law of war? with the same sense of security as he refers to the law of crimes. Nevertheless, the existence o...
Excerpt: The Military Law Review has been published quarterly at The Judge Advocate General?s School, U.S. Army, Charlottesville, Virginia, since 1958. The Review provides a forum for those interested in military law to share the products of their experience and research and is designed for use by military attorneys in connection with their official duties. Writings offered for publication should be of direct concern and import in this area of scholarship, and preference...
Excerpt: In 1960, two prisoners escaping from a military stockade at Fort Carson, Colorado, kidnapped a p a r d . Their subsequent trial by general court-martial started a judicial process culminating in holdings by the United States Court of Military Appeals that the offense of kidnapping, in violation of Colorado statutes, is also an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The opinions in these cases focused the attention of military lawyers on general cons...
Excerpt: The Military Law Review has been published quarterly at The Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army, Charlottesville, Virginia, since 1958. The Review provides a forum for those interested in military law to share the products of their experience and research and is designed for use by military attorneys in connection with their official duties. Writings offered for publication should be of direct concern and import in this area of scholarship, and preference...
Introduction: In the late months of 1956 and during 1957 the USSR negotiated agreements with four other Communist states, agreements which at first blush describe a new relationship 2 between the Communist bloc leadership and those bloc states where Soviet troops are stationed and which have obligations of mutual defense and collective security. Taken together and with their supplemental agreements those pacts weave a neat pattern of legal formality, a tightly wrapped ba...
Introduction: It has been said that delays in the performance of Government contracts have accounted for more losses and a greater percentage of business failure than any other single factor in the field of Government procurement.' We are all aware of the example of the over optimistic or inefficient contractor who is forced to pay liquated damages because he has not been able to complete his work on time, but the contractor is not the only party who can cause delays. In...
Excerpt: Since 1958, the Military Law Review has been published at The Judge Advocate General?s School, United States Army, Charlottesville, Virginia. The Military Law Review provides a forum for those interested in military law to share the products of their experience and research and it is designed for use by military attorneys in connection with their official duties. Writings offered for publication should be of direct concern and import to military legal scholarshi...
Excerpt: This article discusses a need for a definite description of the place to be searched and the things to be seized in military search warrants. The specificity standards for research are identified, defined and analyzed. These standards, revealed in federal case law and present military practices, establish certain guidelines to be followed and that the standards of specificity be applied to the place, the person, and the thing.