Essays on Military Law

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Rape in the United States military has historically been viewed as a myth that did not need to be addressed. This way of thinking is the result of the viewpoints of a rape culture. These viewpoints work to legitimize the violence to remove all blame from the attacker, which makes the violence strategic and intentional. It has been noted the main reason intra-military is underreported is, the fact the attacker usually holds a higher level of superiority. This reality results in, the victim needing to report the event with their attacker. It has been reported by the Marine Corps, ...

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Puerto Rico is a small island that is part of an archipelago located somewhere out in the Caribbean Sea. It has an approximate population of about 3.5 million people and has a small area of about 9,104 square kilometers. The population is largely Hispanic where Spanish and English are the languages that have been set aside for official use. Fridolin (2000) says that the most ideal court system in terms of ideals would definitely be that of Switzerland as it is considered the most transparent court system in the world. It boasts of absence of external interference and ...

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Abstract Women have served in the military from times immemorial, ranging from Egypt’s Queen Ahhotep I and Joan of Arc to modern times, where women increasingly joined the military during the World Wars. Women were traditionally given support roles as medics and technicians. Lately, they have been inducted into combat roles. Life for women in the frontlines is challenging. While a few women are happy about the degree of wholehearted assimilation they experience in units, many remain bitter about the amount of struggle they need to undergo to prove they are as good as men. Fears of ...

What is wrong with these pictures? On the left shows how things may start out; on the right shows how women soldiers in combat get hurt. Perhaps the photographs depicted above (Courtesy of Google Images) seem extreme, yet what is the alternative to reality? On January 24, 2013 as reported by the an article in the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild “Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the military would finally lift the ban on women serving in frontline combat roles, overturning the 1994 rule that limited the roles for women in the armed ...