Reddit mentions: The best military law books

I bought this book and it was really helpful. Super super thorough. It was probably just as difficult if not a little more difficult than the test. I also bought this book. It was extremely easy, and I would not recommend it for preparation.

I first did the Peterson's practice test to find out what I needed to study and improve on. Then I studied out of the books. A week before the test I bought one practice tested from AFOQTguide.com. I also signed up for the news letter which got me a second (outdated) practice test for free.

I did pretty well. My scores were P94/N89/AA87/V89/Q68. I'm just a pretty average dude when it comes to academics so I think my studying is what really helped me.

I know they're more convenient, but I would avoid online tests as any I found were unreliable and not nearly as good as practice/study guides. I would highly recommend these two books (links below). I studied both for a couple months and scored well on every section of the test (just got selected for RPA). The books are pretty different from one another but combined, prepared me well for the test.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1628454776/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635301041/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Keep in mind there may be updated versions. I took the AFOQT last summer.

> Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and an advisory board member of Veterans for Peace. Cohn, who has testified at military hearings and courts-martial about the duty to disobey unlawful orders, is co-author (with Kathleen Gilberd) of Rules of Disengagement: The Politics

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Currently looking to buy the following to study for my AFOQT:

This one

Maybe this one

Or this one


Which one do you all recommend?

Source: Blind Eye to Murder by Tom Bower (Granada Publishing: 1983) page 272, figure 8. The caption for the image reads: “Colonel Gerald Draper of the British War Crimes Group photographed as he finally secured the confession of Rudolph Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz, to the murder of three million people.”

The definitive and most comprehensive source is Simpson's masterpiece, 'In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain'

That is quite an expensive and long book, but it is comparatively objective and written by a legal historian who eventually became Professor of Law at Michigan Law School. That said, I think it is quite hard to look at the issue without having some element of victors bias, as the specific context that Churchill faced was chaotic and difficult.