CNS Fellow, senior attorney in the U.S. Department of Defense, and military and law professor at Columbia University Michel Paradis writes about a possible shift in the court-martial system. Paradis writes, “But it is difficult to overstate what a radical reform to the basic underpinnings and logic of the court-martial system that this seemingly modest reform would be. That is because, at its root, military justice was never about “justice.” Its purpose was to ensure a disciplined chain-of-command that could be relied on to follow orders under fire.”
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