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2024 | Volume 35

Winter 2024 – Issue #1

 

2023 | Volume 34

Fall 2023 – Issue #4

Summer 2023 – Issue #3

Spring 2023 – Issue #2

Winter 2023 – Issue #1

 

2022 | Volume 33

MLTF On Watch 2022 33.4

MLTF On Watch 2022 33.3

MLTF On Watch 2022 33.2

MLTF On Watch 2022 33.1

 

2021 | Volume 32

MLTF On Watch 2021.4 32.4 (coming soon)

MLTF On Watch 2021.3 32.3

2020 | Volume 31

  • Limits of the Illegal Orders Defense and Possible Alternative Protections Under Military Law
  • DoD Covid-19 Policy Changes
  • New DoD Military Equal Opportunity Instruction and How to Use It Effectively
  • Recognizing and Challenging Racism Within the Military – Trump Strikes Back
  • What’s in Store for the Armed Forces Under President Biden?
  • Time to Act Against Selective Service Registration
  • Transgender Ban Update
  • NLG Convention Report

2019 | Volume 30




2018 | Volume 29

  • Deployed to the Border: A Test of Conscience for Service Members
  • Military Equal Opportunity Policies
  • New Navy Policy on ‘Other Designated Physical and Mental Conditions’
  • Army Captain Under Scrutiny for Tweeting Facts About U.S. Military
  • Update on Military Transgender Policy
  • Report from 2018 NLG Convention in Portland
  • Member News
  • Rescuing 17 Year Olds from Military Enlistment Contracts
  • NNOMY Counter-Recruitment Summit Report
  • Report on Selective Service Commission Hearings: Chicago
  • Personnel Provisions of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act
  • Thinking About MLTF’s Future
  • Members’ Thoughts on MLTF Future Priorities
  • Understanding And Dealing With Defenses, Mitigation, Extenuation And Aggravation For US Military Absence Offenses – Part 2
  • Opportunity For Increased Discharge Review Fairness And Transparency Under Review Board Supplemental Guidance
  • Commission On Selective Service Holds Hearings
  • Transgender Service Ban – Continuing Attempts To Discriminate
  • Report: Gi Rights Network Annual Meeting
  • Opinion: Use Of The Military In The Age Of Trump
  • Obituary: Jeffrey Segal
  • Understanding and Dealing with Defenses, Mitigation, Extenuation And Aggravation for US Military Absence Offenses – Part 1
  • New Military Policy on Harassment
  • Countering Military Recruitment
  • Using Social Media in the Military
  • Update on Military Transgender Policy
  • Personnel Provisions of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act
  • The Vital Congressional Hearing on the Endless War That Probably Nobody Watched

2017 | Volume 28

  • Veterans and the Trump Resistance
  • DoD Updates Instruction on Conscientious Objection
  • Updated MLTF Guide to Challenging Military Sexual Violence
  • MLTF Update on Transgender Service Ban
  • Guidance on Servicemember Dissent
  • On Watch 40 Year Retrospective
  • Concerns About Ken Burns PBS Vietnam War Series
  • Book Review: Dangerous Grounds
  • NLG Convention Report
  • What Does a Trump Administration Mean for the GI Rights Advocacy Community?
  • 2017 National Defense Authorization Act Personnel Provisions
  • The Injustices of Manning’s Ordeal
  • Book Review: Court-Martial: How Military Justice Has Shaped America
  • Announcements

2016 | Volume 27

  • New Military Transgender Policy
  • 2016 NLG Convention Report
  • GI Rights Network Conference 2016
  • Chelsea Manning Update
  • Trends in Conscientious Objector Cases
  • Hobby Lobby and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: New Arguments for Military Conscientious Objectors?
  • Cushing v. Tetter: Still a Good Tool in the Box
  • It Is Time to Abolish Draft Registration and Restore Full Rights to People of Conscience
  •  Women in Combat: A historical and political analysis of “change” in the U.S. Armed Forces
  • Military Sexual Assault Policy Updates
  • MLTF Resources on Military Sexual Violence
  • When the Mother’s Military Status Punishes the Child (FERES doctrine)
  • The Military after Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

2015 | Volume 26

  • Born in VietNam: MLTF History
  • DES Changes
  • Chelsea Manning Update
  • MLTF NLG Convention Preview

Archive

 

2014

On Watch 25.4 Dec 2014

  • Secularism the new face of CO
  • Adjustment disorder discharges
  • News & Notes
  • Op-Ed: Modernizing Nukes
  • 2014 NLG Convention Report
  • Stopping militarization of public schools

On Watch 25.3 Sept 2014

On Watch 25.2 Jun 2014

On Watch 25.1 Mar 2014

  • A Day with JROTC: Training ‘Gangsters for Capitalism’
  • Regional News
  • Under the Hood turns five with new board and projects
  • Military Law and the New NDAA
  • Senate blocks Gillibrand sexual assault bill
  • The truth about defense cuts
2013

On Watch24.4 Dec 2013

On Watch 24.3 Sept 2013

On Watch 24.2 Jun 2013

On Watch 24.1 Mar 2013

2012

On Watch 23.4 Dec 2012

  • Advocacy to address sexual assault in the military
  • Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) update
  • Update on Bradley Manning trial
  • Counseling servicemembers in involuntary separations
  • Coffee Strong to become first worker center for servicemembers
  • MLTF news and notes
  • MLTF at 2012 NLG Convention

On Watch 23.3 Sept 2012

  • Representing members of the Armed Forces in Federal Court
  • Fifth Annual GI Rights Network Conference
  • Swords to Plowshares helps medic
  • Book Review: The Passion of Bradley Manning
  • Support actions at Obama campaign offices Sept. 6
  • MLTF events at 2012 NLG convention
  • MLTF launches online book store
  • MLTF news and notes

On Watch 23.2 Jun 2012

  • ‘Other Designated Physical and Mental Conditions’ Discharges
  • Disability evaluation process changes
  • Karen Detamore obituary
  • Ninth Circuit halts vets VA case
  • New On Watch feature assists digital reading
  • Save the date for NLG annual convention
  • MLTF news and notes

On Watch 23.1 Mar 2012

  • Analysis of new policies on sexual assault
  • PTSD suit settled, vets win benefits
  • GI Rights counselors seeing more CO applications
  • Bradley Manning update
  • DoD changes re dissent and protest
  • MLTF news and notes
2011

On Watch 22.4 Dec 2011

  • 2011 convention highlights Guild involvement in new global activism

On Watch 22.3 Sept 2011

  • Counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization

On Watch 22.2, June 2011

  • Building the Campaign to Defend GI Resisters

On Watch 22.1, Mar 2011

  • Federal Court Decisions in Conscientious Objector Cases Since the Iraq War
2010

On Watch 21.4 Fall 2010

  • ‘Lock & Load’ Before Discharge or, How to Protect One’s Future Rights Before or Upon Discharge From the Military

On Watch 21.3 Summer 2010

  • PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and Other than Honorable Discharges

On Watch 21.2 Spring 2010

  • Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – It Comes Down To Integrity

On Watch 21.1 Winter 2010

  • MLTF members defend soldiers against heavy-handed Army tactics
2009

On Watch 20.4 Summer 2009

  • Administrative Separation / Discharge Board Tactics

On Watch 20.3 Winter 2009

  • AWOL from the Army, Version 2
2008

On Watch 20.2 Spring 2008

  • Military’s Proffered Protections to Victims Outsourcing Illegal of Sexual Assault Laced With Loopholes

On Watch 20.1 Winter 2008

  • Representing Service Members In Involuntary Discharge Proceedings
2007

On Watch 19.5 Sep 2007

  • VA Claims: An Overview

On Watch 19.4 Jul 2007

  • Service Members Can Protect Themselves Against Punitive Mental Health Evaluations

On Watch 19.3 May 2007

  • Anti-Base Conference in Ecuador Highlights Strength of Demilitarization Movement

On Watch 19.2 Feb 2007

  • Doing Your First Court-Martial: A Progressive Lawyer’s Dive into the Belly of the Beast

On Watch 19.1 Jan 2007

  • Army Officer Watada Takes A Stand Against an Unjust War in Iraq
2006 ...

On Watch 18.3 Winter 2004

  • Military Psychiatric Policies

On Watch 18.2 Spring 2003

  • Checklists for Discharge Counseling

On Watch 18.1 Winter 2003

  • Stop Loss Orders