Military Law Review Volume 227 Issue 4 2019 CONTENTS Articles Human Rights Convergence and Future Detention Operations in the Indo-Pacific Colonel Ryan B. Dowdy 321 Other Security Forces Too: Traditional Combatant Commander Activities Between U.S. Special Operations Forces and Foreign Non- Military Forces Major Jason A. Quinn 336 Paying for Their Deaths: How the “Widow Tax” Targets and Penalizes Surviving Spouses of Fallen Soldiers and Retirees Major Jenna C. Ferrell 381 The First Thomas J. Romig Lecture in Principled Legal Practice Mr. Alberto Mora 433 i Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. Academic Journal No. 27-100-227-4, 2019 Military Law Review Volume 227 Issue 4 Board of Editors Colonel Jerrett W. Dunlap Dean, The Judge Advocate General’s School Lieutenant Colonel Keirsten H. Kennedy Chair, Administrative and Civil Law Department Lieutenant Colonel Jess B. Roberts Vice Chair, Administrative and Civil Law Department Major Courtney M. 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Much of the international community is inextricably tied to this region through commerce, politics, and security interests. These activities are governed by international law, primarily developed through treaties established as * Judge Advocate, United States Army. Presently assigned as the Staff Judge Advocate (SJA), 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson. Masters in Strategic Studies, 2019, Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA; LL.M., 2008, The Judge Advocate General’s Legal and Center School (TJAGLCS); J.D., 1999, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University, NC; B.A., Economics, 1996, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC; Graduate, 2012, Command General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS. Previous assignments include SJA, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, Fort Shafter; Professor and Chair of the International and Operational Law Department, TJAGLCS; Deputy SJA, 82d Airborne Division; Boards, Plans and Assignments, Office of the Judge Advocate General Personnel Plans and Training Division; Chief, Administrative Law, U.S. Army Special Operations Command; Trial Defense, Fort Bragg, NC; Trial Counsel and Operational Law Attorney, Heidelberg, Germany. Member of the North Carolina Bar. This article is part of a larger research paper submitted in partial completion of the Masters requirement for the Senior Service College. 1 USINDOPACOM Area of Responsibility, U.S. INDO-PACIFIC COMMAND HOME PAGE, www.pacom.mil/About-USINDOPACOM/USPACOM-Area-of-Responsibility/ (last visited Jan. 15, 2019). 322 MILITARY LAW REVIEW [Vol. 227 part of the post-World War II international order under the United Nations (U.N.).2 The complexity of the USINDOPACOM AOR makes armed conflict likely in the near future.3 While international law governs armed conflict, the debate as to which bodies of international law apply in armed conflict is not settled. The U.S. view is that the Law of War (LOW) is lex specialis, displacing laws that normally apply in peace.4 Many other states, to include several U.S. allies and key partners in the USINDOPACOM AOR, either expressly reject this view, or, through their own official statements and jurisprudence, indicate a propensity to reject this view. Generally, the opposing view asserts that states’ legal obligations during peace, specifically those pertaining to human rights, continue during armed conflict without being wholly displaced by the LOW. This opposing view is commonly referred to as the legal concept of convergence, and the body of law is generally referred to as International 5 Human Rights Law (IHRL). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), among other key human rights treaties, instruments, and 6 customary international law (CIL), make up IHRL The complexities of this debate are myriad, and arguments for and against convergence have been litigated and made the subject of numerous publications. The purpose of this article is not to argue the virtues of the 2 U.N.