The call from Democratic veterans in Congress highlights the federal law that dictates the conduct of members of the military ...

Six Democrat veterans in Congress release 'Don't Give Up the Ship' video telling military members they can refuse unlawful ...

While the lawmakers behind the video framed the appeal as a defense of the Constitution, military legal codes make clear that ...

The congressmen who urged military members to disobey orders should retract their insubordinate and politically motivated ...

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 ...

In early September 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the DoD and its leaders may use the names “Department of War” and “Secretary of War” in certain contexts. The ...

The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, ...

Thomas Gift does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The legal justification for the military campaign off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia is shoddy at best and embarrassingly myopic at worst.

Indo-Pacific regional leaders from more than 30 nations on Wednesday attended the 36th annual international Military Law and Operations strategic engagement for a four-day conference in Honolulu. But ...

The U.S. gathered intelligence last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war ...