By Rachel E. VanLandingham & Geoffrey S. Corn Many Americans were undoubtedly dismayed by the news that as many as 20% of participants in the January 6th insurrection – a percentage about ten times greater than the percentage of Americans who volunteer to serve in the military – were current or former members of the… Continue reading Perception and Reality: The Urgency of Finding and Fixing Extremism and Racial Bias in the Armed Forces
Category: The Constitution
Paved with Good Intentions?: Civil-Military Norms, Breaches, and Why Mindset Matters
Dan Maurer’s essay argues that a complete scrutiny of norm-breaking and “crises” within strategic-level American civil-military relationships ought to consider more than the impact of the breach or the value of the actor’s apparent justification for transgression. Rather, considering how an actor understood the norm, and whether he or she accepted it before breaching it,… Continue reading Paved with Good Intentions?: Civil-Military Norms, Breaches, and Why Mindset Matters
Requiem for Korematsu?
Stephen Dycus reviews Professor Eric K. Yamamoto’s timely book In the Shadow of Korematsu: Democratic Liberties and National Security, published just weeks before the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Hawaii. Dycus draws out the book’s core themes, highlighting Yamamoto’s analysis of the Korematsu decision and its continued relevance in American jurisprudence. The review concludes with… Continue reading Requiem for Korematsu?