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| Jan 2009 ***New*** |
Legal Support to Military Operations | Joint Publication 1-04 (US Forces) | Download 01 March 2007 (0.7MB PDF file) |
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| Legal organizations within the Department of Defense (DOD) that support joint operations perform a wide variety of tasks at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Although each legal organization may possess similar functional capabilities (e.g., international and operational law advice, fiscal and contract law reviews, the provision of claims, criminal law, and legal assistance services), the specific tasks performed within each of those functional capabilities differ in purpose and scope depending on the level of war and the organization performing them. To ensure unity of effort, both the joint force commander (JFC) and the joint force staff judge advocate (SJA) must have a common understanding of who is responsible for performing which legal tasks at each level of war and how those tasks are performed. Legal advisers actively participate in the entire planning process from analysis, to course of action (COA) development and recommendation, through execution. Strategic and operational planning typically occurs at the JTF and higher echelons. Legal advisers who perform planning tasks at the tactical level typically do so as a Service component of a JTF. Planning at
that level often involves a single Service that follows Service doctrine, using tactics, techniques, and procedures contained in Military Department and Service publications... Summarised by Aspals |
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| Jan 2009 ***New*** |
Handbook on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Armed Forces Personnel | Professor Ian Leigh and Dr. Hans Born, assisted by Ms. Cecilia Lazzarini Mr. Ian Clements | Published in 2008 by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and
Human Rights (ODIHR) Free to download (1.77MB PDF file) |
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| Armed forces are an integral part of a democratic state and society. By fulfilling their defence and national-security functions, the armed forces play a key role in enabling a security environment that allows us to enjoy the inalienable rights and freedoms to which we are all entitled as human beings. As representatives of the state structure, armed forces personnel are bound to respect human rights and international humanitarian law in the exercise of their duties. But only when their rights are guaranteed within their own institution will armed forces personnel be likely to uphold these in the discharge of their tasks — both when in the barracks and during operations. These changes reflect a recognition that, as “citizens in uniform”, armed forces personnel — whether they are career servicemen or women or conscripts — are entitled to the same human rights and fundamental freedoms as all other citizens. Indeed, the cornerstone of all international human rights treaties to which OSCE participating States are bound is that all human beings, regardless of their professional situation or position in society, are entitled to their inalienable rights and freedoms. Section VI deals with Human Rights Education, Responsibility of Commanders and Individual Accountability, Discipline and Military Justice, and Ombudsmen. Summarised by Aspals |
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