However, service members have a duty to disobey unlawful orders. The question is, what constitutes an unlawful order? “An ...

Six Democrat lawmakers released a video telling service members of their legal obligation to refuse illegal orders under the UCMJ.

A CNN panel erupted when Abby Phillip and Ben Ferguson clashed over whether Democratic lawmakers told military personnel to ...

As Maj. Keith Petty, then an Army judge advocate, explained in an excellent summary of the law in a 2016 piece in Just Security, this is called the “manifestly unlawful” test, and — as Petty described ...

As America’s militarisation under the president grows, so too does concern over where the military would stand if presented with 'illegal ...

As America’s militarisation under the president grows, so too does concern over where the military would stand if presented with 'illegal orders', writes Foreign Editor ...