Court-Martial: How Military Justice Has Shaped America from the Revolution to 9/11 and Beyond

Court-Martial: How Military Justice Has Shaped America from the Revolution to 9/11 and Beyond
Author: Chris Bray
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393243419

A timely, provocative account of how military justice has shaped American society since the nation’s beginnings. Historian and former soldier Chris Bray tells the sweeping story of military justice from the earliest days of the republic to contemporary arguments over using military courts to try foreign terrorists or soldiers accused of sexual assault. Stretching from the American Revolution to 9/11, Court-Martial recounts the stories of famous American court-martials, including those involving President Andrew Jackson, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Lieutenant Jackie Robinson, and Private Eddie Slovik. Bray explores how encounters of freed slaves with the military justice system during the Civil War anticipated the civil rights movement, and he explains how the Uniform Code of Military Justice came about after World War II. With a great eye for narrative, Bray hones in on the human elements of these stories, from Revolutionary-era militiamen demanding the right to participate in political speech as citizens, to black soldiers risking their lives during the Civil War to demand fair pay, to the struggles over the court-martial of Lieutenant William Calley and the events of My Lai during the Vietnam War. Throughout, Bray presents readers with these unvarnished voices and his own perceptive commentary. Military justice may be separate from civilian justice, but it is thoroughly entwined with American society. As Bray reminds us, the history of American military justice is inextricably the history of America, and Court-Martial powerfully documents the many ways that the separate justice system of the armed forces has served as a proxy for America’s ongoing arguments over equality, privacy, discrimination, security, and liberty.

Court-martial Procedure

Court-martial Procedure
Author: Francis A. Gilligan
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN: 9780769866017

Military Judges' Benchbook

Military Judges' Benchbook
Author: United States. Department of the Army
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1982
Genre: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN:

Military Rules of Evidence Manual

Military Rules of Evidence Manual
Author: Stephen A. Saltzburg
Publisher: Lexis Law Publishing (Va)
Total Pages: 1272
Release: 1997
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Military Rules of Evidence Manual, Fourth Edition is the only publication of its kind available to both military & civilian attorneys that analyzes what the Rules say & mean to judges & counsel in the military justice system. It also serves as an authoritative case finder. Since the Rules became effective in 1980, this book has been cited hundreds of times by the military courts. This Fourth Edition provides notes to virtually every military case that has interpreted or applied the Rules.

Summer Soldiers

Summer Soldiers
Author: James C. Neagles
Publisher: Ancestry.com
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN:

Summer Soldiers is the story of a diverse group of some 3,315 men who could not withstand the hardships and pressures of what seemed like a hopeless enterprise, and ultimately found themselves before a military court-martial.

Defending America

Defending America
Author: Elizabeth Lutes Hillman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691224269

From going AWOL to collaborating with communists, assaulting fellow servicemen to marrying without permission, military crime during the Cold War offers a telling glimpse into a military undergoing a demographic and legal transformation. The post-World War II American military, newly permanent, populated by draftees as well as volunteers, and asked to fight communism around the world, was also the subject of a major criminal justice reform. By examining the Cold War court-martial, Defending America opens a new window on conflicts that divided America at the time, such as the competing demands of work and family and the tension between individual rights and social conformity. Using military justice records, Elizabeth Lutes Hillman demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission, ideological goals, fear of homosexuality, and attitude toward racial, gender, and class difference. The records also show that only the most inept, unfortunate, and impolitic of misbehaving service members were likely to be prosecuted. Young, poor, low-ranking, and nonwhite servicemen bore a disproportionate burden in the military's enforcement of crime, and gay men and lesbians paid the price for the armed forces' official hostility toward homosexuality. While the U.S. military fought to defend the Constitution, the Cold War court-martial punished those who wavered from accepted political convictions, sexual behavior, and social conventions, threatening the very rights of due process and free expression the Constitution promised.

The Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising

The Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising
Author: Brian Barton
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2010-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0750959053

Until 1999 official British records of the fifteen trials that followed the Easter Rising of 1916 were kept a close secret. Further material released in 2001 included the trial of Countess Markievicz and important evidence about the 'shoot to kill' tactics used by the British Army. These records, the subject of heated speculation and propaganda for over eighty years, are clearly presented in this important new book. The complete transcripts are all here, together with fascinating photographs of the Rising, the fifteen leaders and the key British players. Brian Barton's incisive commentary explains the context of the trials and the motivations of the leaders, providing an invaluable insight into what went on behind a closed door at a defining moment in Irish history.

On American Soil

On American Soil
Author: Jack Hamann
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1565123948

Describes the 1944 lynching murder of an Italian POW at Seattle's Fort Lawton, the international outcry that followed, and the court-martial, the largest of World War II, that accused more than forty African-American soldiers of the crime.