As a result of the detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib, the Army had to come up with a solution. One Army initiative was to activate internment and resettlement organizations. Two active duty Military Police (MP) Battalions, the 704th MP Battalion (BN)...
Prisons and detention centers are recruiting grounds for radical Islamists. The National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism Campaign Plan does not sufficiently develop a strategy to counter the violent Islamic ideologies in order to...
The role of Military Police (MP) on the battlefield has changed significantly since the on sought of 9/11. Not only do they have the responsibility of rear echelon security, they have evolved too many new roles as the War on Terrorism expands...
An officer in the Military Police Corps, Major Macedonio Molina supported the Global War on Terrorism initially as a unit mobilization assistor in 2nd Battalion, 363rd Brigade (Training Support), and then later as a range officer in charge and then...
A current ethical dilemma facing the Army is detainee operations and Military Corrections. These two very critical areas deal with the human dimension, not just at the unit level but on a daily basis. Let me explain, if your current assignment is...
Still inside the wire at Abu Ghraib Prison, after the reported maltreatment of detainees approximately 18 months later. My personal experience with the 96th Military Police Battalion as we continued detainee operation providing a safe, secure and...
Specialist Larry Birschbach served as the senior intelligence analyst for 1st Squadron, 8th Cavalry from October 2006 through January 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this email interview, he talks about his unit's temporary holding...
In charge of the 439th Military Police Detachment and deployed in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from November 2003 to January 2005, Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Sylvester, while in country, ran the Baghdad-area detention facility...
Robledo, Michael A.; Lawson, Mark; Cook, Kevin M.; Kouneski, Michael
Its no mistake that since the beginning of the Civil War the United States Army has activated the Military Police (MP) at the onset of every major conflict and deactivated it at the end of every major conflict up to the end of World War II. The...
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Kenneth Kilbourne served as the officer in charge of the tactical human intelligence (HUMINT) section of Alpha Company, 501st Military Intelligence Battalion, in Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this...
Some say it started with Abu Ghraib some say with Guantanamo; while others insist that
it's a commonly accepted practice in civilian jails and detention centers. What I am referring to is the use of health-care personnel in assisting with or...
Major Craig Martin served as the intelligence officer for 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry and the assistant operations officer for the 501st Military Intelligence Battalion in Baghdad from April through December 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi...
In this March 2009 interview MAJ Lisa Coleman, Military Police (MP) discusses her 2004-2005 deployment to Iraq as a member of Task Force (TF) 134 as part of the joint operations section (J3). MAJ Coleman describes her integration into theater, her...
The US Army's experience with detainee operations spans the period from the Revolutionary War to the present. More to the point, over the past 60 years a body of international law and military regulations, the joint and Army doctrine derived from...
Leaders of today's Army are faced with ethical problems on what seems a constant basis. A specific problem facing our Army deals with the War on Terrorism and society's judgment of ethical decisions made by military leaders. One such case is made...
Major Brad Johnson served as the intelligence officer for 1st Battalion, 13th Armor in Iraq from March through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this email correspondence interview, he discusses American jurisdiction over...
The Army is built on values and doing what is right without supervision. The events that occurred with the 800th Military Police Brigade in late 2003 and made public in May of 2004 at Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib, Baghdad Central Confinement...
The United States led troops in Afghanistan and Iraq are challenged with many ethical questions. Do we treating foreign citizens and enemy combatant ethically? "As military professionals, it is important that we take time to reflect on the values...
Interrogation in the world has been a difficult subject for many nations to tackle. There will be many challenges for decades with the handling of prisoners of war (POW) and detainees as part of the Global War on Terrorism, and perhaps for...
This paper describes some of the key events and lessons learned during my deployment to the Abu Grahib Internment Facility, during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIP) ill. It will take you through the chronological order of the deployment. I will discuss...