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Honorable service requires courage on the battlefield, but it also requires courage in the Situation Room, in the Pentagon, and anywhere military leaders serve our country. 14 April 2026 –  A new legal memo from the Former JAGs Working Group  offers a sober reminder to America’s senior military leaders: the oath is not a formality. It is a duty. The memo, Legal Foundations of Honorable Military Service , is not a call for insubordination. In fact, the authors explicitly state

A 17-minute documentary filmed on the front lines of Ukraine is delivering an urgent warning about drone warfare — one that cuts close to home as U.S. troops face drone attacks in the Middle East. Former Navy pilot Ken Harbaugh and former Congressman Denver Riggleman say America is dangerously behind the curve.

An American Navy pilot witnesses how Ukraine's drone hunters are forging the future of war. Denver, Colorado, March 17, 2026. – Today,  Drone Hunters of Kherson  made its streaming premiere on the MeidasTouch Network and VALOR Media Network, bringing the frontline story of Ukraine’s counter-drone fight to a national audience. Produced by former Navy Pilot Kenneth Harbaugh and Charlie Sadoff, with executive producers Denver Riggleman and Sebastian Junger,  Drone Hunters of Khe

There's a reason every president before Donald Trump — regardless of party, regardless of how they felt about the military — maintained a basic norm: you don't use the armed forces as a political backdrop. That norm existed not out of courtesy, but because the military's effectiveness depends on the public's belief that it belongs to everyone. Friday's event at Fort Bragg suggests that norm is now effectively gone. Trump's appearance on the North Carolina installation was, by

A new Pentagon-built artificial intelligence tool, GenAI.mil, has concluded that a hypothetical U.S. “double strike” on a drug-smuggling vessel — including a second attack on survivors in the water — would be “unambiguously illegal.” The scenario put to the system mirrors recent U.S. military operations in the Caribbean.

The following article was originally published in Just Security by one of our veteran partners. Read the original here. Is it legal to use lethal force to target suspected drug trafficking boats on the high seas or kill those on board? No. The United States is not in an armed conflict with any cartel or criminal gang. That means the law of armed conflict (LOAC), also known as international humanitarian law (IHL), does not  apply to the military operations that began on Sept.

The following article was originally published in Just Security by one of our veteran partners. Read the original here. According to recent media reports , Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verbally ordered special forces to “kill everybody” ahead of a Sept. 2 operation targeting alleged drug traffickers in international waters. That order allegedly resulted in a follow-on “double tap” strike that killed two survivors who were clinging to wreckage. I agree with Professor Jack Go

The following article was originally published in Just Security by one of our veteran partners. You can read the original here. The recent lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have drawn intense scrutiny—not only for the operation itself, but for the opaque legal framework behind it. A key legal opinion by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) allegedly authorizing the strikes remains classified, despite the fact that similar OLC analyses

After President Trump’s reelection, a retired Army general who had previously criticized the president grew concerned about how the incoming administration might retaliate if he chose to speak publicly again. He outlined three ways the government could target him: a civil lawsuit, an IRS audit, or even recall to active duty where he could face military justice action. He recently reflected on those fears after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon would i

This article was originally published by one of our veteran partners. Read his original article here. The Trump Administration continues to confound the gods of legal reasoning with its inability to maintain a consistent — let alone plausible — legal argument in defense of its extraordinary assertions of executive power.  This time, their tenuous legal reasoning relates to the continued use of drones to eliminate illicit drug-carrying vessels and their crews on the high seas

A federal court has permanently blocked a key provision of a March 25 executive order that sought to add new hurdles for Americans voting from afar—including active-duty service members, their families, and other overseas citizens. In a case led by the Secure Families Initiative (SFI), which represents military families, the court ruled that the President cannot unilaterally direct changes to federal election procedures. Citing the U.S. Constitution, the court said authority

Some of America’s most decorated military veterans in Congress have expressed outrage after U.S. military veterans were arrested or injured during protests against former President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and his deployment of National Guard units to American cities. “I went to war three times for this country to defend the right of Americans to say things I may not like,” said Representative Jason Crow , a Democrat from Colorado and former Army Ranger who earned