ABSTRACT
Yet as the world has changed, so has the military changed to satisfy new demands that the modern world has placed upon it, and this has not happened in isolation from the impact of human rights. The military has taken its own approach to the institutionalization of human rights norms, and in so doing it has been more receptive than civilian policy makers. Even as American foreign policy has resisted the application of human rights norms to American behavior, the branches of the armed services military have justified both their identities and behaviors on human rights terms.
