Legal Lessons LearnedFrom Afghanistan and Iraq

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Volume I

Major Combat Operations( 11 September 2001 –1 May 2003 )

Center for Law and Military OperationsThe Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & SchoolUnited States ArmyCharlottesville, Virginia

ENTER FOR

AW AND

ILITARY

PERATIONS

(CLAMO)

Director

LTC Pamela Stahl

Director, Domestic Operational Law

LTC Joseph Dice

Deputy Director, Training & Support

MAJ Daniel Saumur

Director, Joint Operational Law

Maj Cody Weston, USMC

Director, Coalition Operations

Squadron Leader Catherine Wallis, Royal Australian Air Force

Deputy Director, Operations

CPT Brent Fitch

Director, Interagency Operational Law/State Department Representative

Mr. Bernard Seward, Jr.

Advanced Operational Law Studies Officers

MAJ Laura Klein & MAJ Lance Miller

Legal Center/CLAMO Legal Administrator

CW2 Damon Collier

NCOIC Legal Center/CLAMO

SFC James Smith

Legal Interns

Jonathan Cannon & Bridget Keenan

Combat Training Centers

LTC Mark Dupont Battle Command Training ProgramLTC Larss Celtnieks Battle Command Training ProgramMAJ Luis Rodriguez Battle Command Training ProgramMAJ Rick Lear Joint Readiness Training CenterCPT Hank McKnelly Joint Readiness Training CenterCPT Cory Young Joint Readiness Training CenterSFC Lawrence Odoy Joint Readiness Training CenterMAJ Toby Harryman National Training CenterCPT Chris Kennebeck National Training CenterSFC Stephen Pickerin National Training CenterCPT Casey Nix Combat Maneuver Training CenterThe Center’s

mission

is to examine legal issues that arise during all phases of military operations and to devisetraining and resource strategies for addressing those issues. It seeks to fulfill this mission in five ways.

First

, it is the central

repository

within The Judge Advocate General's Corps for all-source data, information, memoranda, after-action materialsand lessons learned pertaining to legal support to operations, foreign and domestic.

Second

, it supports judge advocates by

analyzing

all data and information,

developing

lessons learned

across all military legal disciplines, and by

disseminating

these lessons learned and other operational information to the Army, Marine Corps, and Joint communities throughpublications, instruction, training, and databases accessible to operational forces, world-wide.

Third

, it supports judgeadvocates in the field by responding to

requests for assistance

, by engaging in a continuous exchange of information with the

Combat Training Centers

and their judge advocate observer-controllers, and by creating operational law

training guides.

Fourth,

integrates lessons learned

from operations and the Combat Training Centers into emerging

doctrine

and into the

curricula

of all relevant courses, workshops,

orientations, and seminars conducted at The Judge Advocate General’s LegalCenter and School.

Fifth

, in conjunction with The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, it sponsors

conferences and symposia

on topics of interest to operational lawyersThe contents of this Publication are not to be construed as official positions, policies, or decisions of the U.S. Army,The Judge Advocate General, the U.S. Marine Corps, the Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, theU.S. Department of State, or the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. The Center welcomes and solicitssuggestions and contributions of relevant operational law materials from the field.