by Todd E. Pierce, Major, US Army JAG (ret.)
Modern U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine doesn’t just target people in faraway lands where the U.S. military is battling some uprising. It also takes aim at Americans whose dissent might undermine those wars, possibly explaining the strange arrest and jailing of Ray McGovern on Oct. 30, writes Todd Pierce. (Ray’s trial in New York City Criminal Court has been set for Feb. 4.)