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Headquarters, Department of the Army Department of the Army Pamphlet 27-50-446 July 2010 Articles “I Won’t Participate in an Illegal War”: Military Objectors, the Nuremberg Defense, and the Obligation to Refuse Illegal Orders Captain Robert E. Murdough United States v. Blazier: So, Exactly Who Needs an Invitation to the Dance? Major David Edward Coombs TJAGLCS Practice Notes Faculty, The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School Criminal Law Notes Spice—“I Want a New Drug” Major Andrew Flor Substantive Crimes and Defenses—Lesser Included Offenses Update: United States v. Jones Major Patrick D. Pflaum Claims Report USALSA Report Book Reviews CLE News Current Materials of Interest Editor, Captain Ronald T. P. Alcala Technical Editor, Charles J. 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No compensation can be paid for articles. New Developments Administrative and Civil Law ................................................................................................................................................... 1 Lore of the Corps Judge Advocates in the Empire of Haile Sellasie: Army Lawyers in Ethiopia in the Early 1970s Fred L. Borch III ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Articles “I Won’t Participate in an Illegal War”: Military Objectors, the Nuremberg Defense, and the Obligation to Refuse Illegal Orders Captain Robert E. Murdough ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 United States v. Blazier: So, Exactly Who Needs an Invitation to the Dance? Major David Edward Coombs ................................................................................................................................................... 15 TJAGLCS Practice Notes Faculty, The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School Criminal Law Notes Spice—“I Want a New Drug” Major Andrew Flor .................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Substantive Crimes and Defenses—Lesser Included Offenses Update: United States v. Jones Major Patrick D. Pflaum .......................................................................................................................................................... 27 Claims Report U.S. Army Legal Services Agency Claims Notes The Judge Advocate General’s Award for Excellence in Claims Colonel R. Peter Masterton ...................................................................................................................................................... 31 Foreign Claims—Not Just for Overseas Offices Douglas Dribben ..................................................................................................................................................................... 34 USALSA Report U.S. Army Legal Services Agency Trial Judiciary Note A View from the Bench: “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know” Major Matthew McDonald ....................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Book Reviews Reagan’s Secret War Reviewed by Major Joe Schrantz .............................................................................................................................................. 41 CLE News .................................................................................................................................................................. 45 Current Materials of Interest .................................................................................................................................. 56 Individual Paid Subscriptions to The Army Lawyer Inside Back Cover JULY 2010 • THE ARMY LAWYER • DA PAM 27-50-446 New Developments Administrative & Civil Law AR 600-20, Army Command Policy RAR: 27 April 2010 The following Army Regulations have been recently Changes: Places the authority to initiate an inquiry into updated. The list is not all inclusive, and the highlighted homosexual conduct with a commander in the Soldier’s changes do not necessarily address all the revisions made to chain of command in the grade of O-7 or higher. Any these particular regulations. Attorneys should regularly person the O-7 commander appoints to conduct the consult the U.S. Army Publishing Directorate’s website inquiry must be in the grade of O-5 or higher. Requires (http://www.army.mil/usapa/index.html) for updates to third parties providing information regarding Army publications, including regulations and pamphlets. homosexual conduct to do so under oath. Defines All updated regulations feature a “Summary of Change” “unreliable person” and prohibits certain categories of section that outlines pertinent revisions. information from being used as evidence in the fact- finding inquiry. • AR 135-175, Officer Separations RAR: 27 April 2010 • AR 635-200, Active Duty Enlisted Administrative Changes: Deletes the word “limited” from describing Separations the circumstances that an officer can use to show that Rapid Action Revision (RAR): 27 April 2010 retention by the Separation Board/Authority is Changes: Places the authority to separate enlisted warranted. Removing the word “limited” clarifies for personnel under Chapter 15, Discharge for Homosexual the Separation Board/Authority that the circumstances Conduct, with a general officer commander in the warranting retention are not necessarily rare. Soldier’s chain of command, of equal grade or senior to the commander initiating a fact-finding inquiry or • AR 135-178, Enlisted Administrative Separations separation. Only a commander in the Soldier’s chain of RAR: 27 April 2010 command in the grade of O-7 or higher is authorized to Changes: Places the authority to separate enlisted initiate separation proceedings on the basis of alleged personnel under Chapter 15, Discharge for Homosexual homosexual conduct.—Major Todd A. Messinger. Conduct, with a General Officer commander in the Soldier’s chain of command, of equal grade or senior to the commander initiating a fact-finding inquiry or separation. Only a commander in the Soldier’s chain of command, in the grade of O-7 or higher, is authorized to initiate separation proceedings on the basis of alleged homosexual conduct. • AR 600-8-24, Officer Transfers and Discharges RAR: 27 April 2010 Changes: Deletes the word “limited” from describing the circumstances that an officer can use to show that retention by the Separation Board/Authority is warranted. Removing the word “limited” clarifies for the Separation