ABSTRACT
Introduction .................................................................................................. 431 Overview of the United States Military Justice System.............................. 433 Basic Structure of Current Military Law .................................................... 434 Detention of Enemy Terror Combatants and Military Tribunals ............. 437 Military Tribunals and the Military Commission...................................... 440 Military Tribunal Procedures....................................................................... 446 A Word on the Federal Courts in the War on Terrorism.......................... 449 Concluding Remarks .................................................................................... 451 References ...................................................................................................... 452
Chapter 12 examined the broader legal issues surrounding the modern executive order in our national security strategy. This chapter will focus on the narrower role military jurisprudence plays in the 21st century epoch of international terrorism. The last chapter provided a basic grounding in our constitutional system as it relates to national security law.
