Obeying Orders: Atrocity, Military Discipline, and the Law of War

Abstract

Vandervelde, and the participants in faculty seminars at Stanford and the University of Iowa. Conversations with several leading Judge Advocate General (hereinafter JAG) officers and civilian Defense Department lawyers, whose anonymity must be preserved, proved invaluable. Discussions with Carlos Nino and Jaime Malamud-Goti, while they were prosecuting officers for crimes arising from Argentina's "dirty war," were also very helpful. I am grateful to several members of legal academia who were willing, on condition of anonymity, to share some rather unflattering tales of their own military activities during World War II and the Korean War. Special thanks, as always, to Eliza Willis. The Iowa Law Foundation provided generous financial support. A larger version of the present study will appear shortly as a book, with the same title. The reader of the present Article will, of course, find all of her doubts, criticisms, and disagreements fully addressed in the larger work.

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