Military justice

the long version

"This volume accomplishes two main purposes: it provides comprehensive, accurate, and current information about the military justice system and related disciplinary features written by a lawyer but in laymen's language; and it explains the system through illustrative or engaging anecdotes, including the trials of Billy Mitchell, Eddie Slovak and the World War II Nazi saboteurs, whose capture and trial provide the basis for the Guantanamo-based trials of suspected terrorists, initiated by President Bush and continued by President Obama. The U.S. military justice system continues to thrive and expand while systems in our Allied nations have been restricted or virtually shut down. This volume provides some insights on why this is, while educating citizens and practitioners in its function, rules and traditions"--Jacket.