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Military officer training program for the United States armed forces
Bill Clinton did not serve in Vietnam and took steps in 1968–69 to avoid induction that critics called "draft dodging," but reporters and government reviews since the 1990s have concluded he did not c...
The authority to order and direct U.S. military forces flows from the President as Commander‑in‑Chief through the Secretary of Defense to combatant commanders; the Joint Chiefs of Staff are senior adv...
U.S. service members are trained and legally required to refuse orders that are unlawful, but that duty is constrained by a high legal threshold (“manifestly unlawful”), strong institutional incentive...
Publicly accessible Department of the Army and DoD materials do not provide a clean, compiled 20‑year breakdown of promotion selection rates by commissioning source (USMA, ROTC, OCS, direct commission...
University leaders confronted the December 1, 1969 draft lottery by juggling legal deferment rules, campus safety and protest management, and a scramble to reassure students and alumni—actions shaped ...
After the Nuremberg trials the U.S. military and legal community rejected “just following orders” as an absolute defense for war crimes and taught that service members have a duty to refuse manifestly...