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CONSCIENCE: THE LAST CHAIN OF COMMAND
The rules that govern a service member’s actions are not flexible, and they are not adjusted by rank, urgency, or rhetoric. Authority flows from legality. That has been fixed for decades inside the Uniform Code of Military Justice, reinforced through the Geneva Conventions, and made unmistakable in the record that followed the Nuremberg Trials. A service member is not protected by the fact that an order was given. The legal system assigns responsibility to the act itself and
Ventzi Nelson
Mar 184 min read
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