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  • “Why We Fight”

    What good is being a subject matter expert in the administration of military justice if you cannot convince your colleagues, your commanders, and when it comes down to it, the court-martial members, that your application of the law is not only the correct one, but the just one.

  • Military Sexual Assault Testimony

    The following describes a specific case where the federal officer removal statute was implicated through the creative use by civilian counsel. This article sets forth considerations that JAGs should consider when analyzing a case that implicates multiple jurisdictions.

  • How to Achieve Success in Federal Magistrate Court

    Beyond the relevant AFI, there is little Air Force guidance available to JAGs on the administration and prosecution of magistrate court cases. This article identifies four practical ways JAGs can achieve success as SAUSAs in federal magistrate court ...

  • Fighter Feedback

    Pilots use the post-sortie debrief as an immediate opportunity to draw out errors that occurred during the sortie … and internalize the lessons to prevent future reoccurrence. JAGs should adopt the post-sortie debrief methodology following courts-martial to improve trial litigation skills.

  • The Court-Martial of Private Vasily Shabunin

    By the summer of 1866, Leo Tolstoy had been working on his titanic novel, War and Peace, for three years. During that midpoint of his work, Tolstoy’s masterpiece was briefly distracted by two men who visited his family estate and asked for his assistance. The men were junior officers from the 65th