"Important Service" in Military Law

Military involvement in law enforcement

Law enforcement is not a task usually undertaken by military forces, at least within domestic legal contexts. Conversely, maintaining or restoring security within dysfunctional or ‘post-conflict’ areas of operation is a role commonly undertaken by them. Within these latter operations, the skill sets and highly calibrated application of force that are commonly associated with police forces in th...

Als in the Military Unexpected Consequences of Military Service

Another Important Lesson from Military Surgery?

Knowingwhen awound can safely be closed is an iconic problem for surgery. When an extremity wound is closed too soon, with resulting infection requiring further debridement, an amputation can result. Or a minor amputation can be converted into a major amputation. Patient welfare is on the line, and expenses are considerable in these situations. The novel work (Forsberg et al. 2015), published i...

Military Service for Mental Defectives

The object of this article is to offer information gained in examining mentally defective soldiers, to show their limitations, and the risks involved in keeping them in the Army, and to outline the way in which they are being dealt with. In civilian life we have to consider mental defect as a failure in social adaptation due mainly to lack of sufficient intelligence but frequently also to poor ...

Neuropsychological Changes Following Military Service in Iraq

SINCE THE 1990-1991 PERSIAN GULF WAR, THE IDEA that the health of military personnel returning from major deployments should be monitored proactively has been established. Major studies are under way on both sides of the Atlantic on the health of personnel deployed to Iraq. The research that has emerged so far on US veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom indicates that there have indeed been many ...