Detainee operations and the law of war.(Commentary & Reply)(Letter to the Editor) From: Parameters | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Rehkopf, Donald G., Jr.; Hoffman, Michael H. | COPYRIGHT 2005 U.S. Army War College. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

To the Editor:

Michael Hoffman's article, "Rescuing the Law of War: A Way Forward in an Era of Global Terrorism" (Parameters, Summer 2005), contains so many fundamental flaws in legal scholarship, errors of basic constitutional law, and factual fallacies that it verges on Administration propaganda. (1)

Allow me to provide three examples of significant distortions. First, Hoffman argues that "Rasul v. Bush ... establishes that unlawful belligerents have a righ...

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