> The current, restrictive approach is a jurisprudential about-face. I'm a > Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Officer in the Army Reserves and before I > deployed in 2003, professors at the Army JAG School taught me â and I > subsequently taught soldiers â that troops never lose the right of > self-defense. It is a right so valued that, according to a 2001 article in > the "Army Lawyer," US Army Commanders preparing for operations in Kosovo > "refused to rest until they received interpretations of NATO ROE > consistent with self-defense ..." > Indeed, the inherent right of self-defense provided the basis for the US > response to 9/11.
As a plans action officer with the U.S. European Command J-2 in the mid-80s and as I Marine Expeditionary Force Plans Officer in the early 90s, I can attest that self defense -- shooting BACK -- was always included in peacetime ROE and in every war plan I participated in writing or reviewed. At least until now the U.S. military NEVER lost the right of self defense. That went from small arms to weapons systems appropriate to the nature of the attack. Joe W _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
