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Op-Ed: Abraham Lincoln and the Obligations Of International Law
June 13, 2013 — Prof. Matthew PinskerAbraham Lincoln cared about international law. He encountered it as a 19th-century lawyer and politician. He quoted from it in some key public documents. He invoked it as commander-in-chief. But most important, he considered himself and the American government to be bound by it—or at least obligated to take international legal... MORE

Civil-Military Relations and the Not-Quite Wars of the Present and Future
October 1, 1996 — Author: Dr Vincent Davis Three papers presented at the Patterson School-Strategic Studies Institute Symposium focused on civil-military relations at various levels. West Point professor Don M. Snider maintains that continued pressures on the armed forces—especially the Army—to put aside war-fighting missions in favor of other missions will further... MORE