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COL Mustard

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28. Encouraging troops to FOLLOW THE LAW

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 09:49 PM

Nov 2025

Is not sedition. All military personnel have an obligation to refuse to obey unlawful or illegal orders. The problem is in knowing when an order is unlawful or illegal. If you refuse an order and it later turns out to be legal, you're screwed. And the burden is on you to prove it's illegal. It's a high bar and a hard situation and I feel for anyone serving today who may be in that situation.

I wonder what the six know that the rest of us don't?

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