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Nov 21, 2025
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Which landmark cases cleared soldiers who claimed they were following illegal orders and why?

Historic U.S. and international reporting in the current sources does not list a simple roll-call of “landmark” cases that systematically cleared soldiers who claimed they were following illegal order...

Nov 26, 2025

What penalties and sentences resulted from United States v. Calley and subsequent appeals?

William L. Calley was court-martialed, convicted in March 1971 of the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians and an assault on a child, and sentenced to life with hard labor; the Army later mo...