More from Tom Ricks on JAGs and the Civ-Mil Relationship

Robert Chesney
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 12:36 PM
Over at Best Defense, Tom Ricks has another post on the role of JAGs in the civ-mil relationship.  I'd given him some recommendations previously in response to his first post and my call to readers for suggestions.  Some more recommendations have come in since then, including this piece by the terrific duo of Sean Watts and Paul Kantwill (both Army JAGs at the time, though Sean is now a law p

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Over at Best Defense, Tom Ricks has another post on the role of JAGs in the civ-mil relationship.  I'd given him some recommendations previously in response to his first post and my call to readers for suggestions.  Some more recommendations have come in since then, including this piece by the terrific duo of Sean Watts and Paul Kantwill (both Army JAGs at the time, though Sean is now a law prof at Creighton).  Meanwhile, Tom calls for a longer-lens history of the JAG-civilian relationship in the post-9/11 decade, branching across the particular issues that arose....

Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.

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