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JAG hive mind: Is anyone tracking any academic writing or other article on how we would do expeditionary Military Justice in an LSCO environment?
I was having a discussion with my chaplain about how we do our jobs in LSCO scenarios and it got me thinking. 1/
I was having a discussion with my chaplain about how we do our jobs in LSCO scenarios and it got me thinking. 1/
If we were to be in a true large scale conflict where multiple corps (and subordinate units) are engaging and advancing in a large theater (probably with some significant CEMA denial), how would we handle courts martial and UCMJ? 2/
I certainly don& #39;t see an Iraq-Afghanistan style process to send cases back CONUS if units are constantly moving forward/engaging and being reconstituted and higher echelons are conducting survivability moves and worrying about support area threats. 3/
I also foresee that many of these packets will be primarily on paper (I don& #39;t imagine MJO will work on my OLK-E) and that transmitting from SCMCA to SPCMCA to GCMCA will be a nightmare when transport priority will be supply, medical, and personnel. 4/
So how do we as a JAGC comply with our statutory mission and deliver swift justice while the formation around us engages in a fight that will take higher priority than any UCMJ action? 5/
If we assume that the next fight will be closer to WWII than to any other conflict since, how do we account for the UCMJ& #39;s proceedings that didn& #39;t exist back then? 2 million+ courts martial in WWII...the UCMJ was adopted after. TDS, SVCs, MJAs, SVPs...none of that existed. 6/
So now that we have created a system that& #39;s comfortable in garrison, how do we deploy it for LSCO? First and foremost, are we properly manned for it? 7/
How do we change our own mindset to be able to provide commanders their good order and discipline tools while moving and engaging?
We don& #39;t find these answers in doctrine. JP 1-04 makes barely passing mention of MJ practitioners in Joint Force Ops. 8/
We don& #39;t find these answers in doctrine. JP 1-04 makes barely passing mention of MJ practitioners in Joint Force Ops. 8/
For the Army side, FM 1-04 briefly discusses MJ in Operations from a 10,000 foot view without getting into the details of how we would actually operationalize it in LSCO. 9/
I think it& #39;s something we need to think about as a corps. If we are going to focus on preserving a commander& #39;s legal maneuver space, it& #39;s worth also focusing on the military justice side of the equation and addressing how we approach it in the next fight. 10/x
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I missed adding @realToddHuntley in on this one
