Complete Guide to the Controversy over Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility (JTF-GTMO, GITMO) and Treatment of War on Terror Enemy Combatants: Pros and Cons, History, Closure Issues

This is the most comprehensive collection of official documents and reports available in digital format about the controversy surrounding the Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility (JTF-GTMO, GITMO) and the treatment of War on Terror enemy combatants. Each document is professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Over forty studies, reports, and academic research papers provide full coverage of the pros and cons of the GITMO policy, including a complete history of the facility and policies regarding terrorist detainees and enemy combatants, and thoughtful analysis and constructive criticism by military legal experts.

Contents include:

To Close or Not to Close: Guantanamo Bay * Guantanamo Detention Facility - Why is it Still There? * A Compelling Solution to Guantanamo Bay * Joint Task Force - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Open or Close? * Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues (2011) * Boumediene v. Bush: Guantanamo Detainees' Right to Habeas Corpus * Guantanamo Bay Detainees: National Security or Civil Liberty * Guantanamo Bay Detainees: Facilities and Factors for Consideration If Detainees Were Brought to the United States * Guantanamo Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court * Detainees at Guantanamo Bay * JTF-GTMO: A 10-year Relook * Strategic Detention and Intelligence Operations: GTMO Is The Answer * Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court (2010) * Crisis in the Courtroom: Detention of Enemy Combatants * Relocate GTMO Detainees to Stand Trial in the United States * A Long, Hard Fall from the Pedestal * United States Policy on Detainees Captured During the Global War on Terror in Light of the United States Supreme Court Decisions in Rasul V. Bush, Rumsfeld V. Padilla, And Hamdiv v. Rumsfeld * Why GTMO? * Combating Terrorism: The Legality, Utility and Morality of Coercion * Maintaining Legitimacy in Combined Operations: Managing the Impact of U.S. Detainee Policy * "Six Floors" of Detainee Operations in the Post-9/11 World * Lawfare: A Current Threat or Much Ado About Nothing? * Integrity Failures: A Strategic Leader Problem * Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Military Commissions in the "Global War on Terrorism" * Voyage to the Dark Side: The Tortured Path of United States' Detainee Interrogation Policy * Interrogation of Detainees: Overview of the McCain Amendment * Combatant Determination in the Asymmetric Environment * Undisclosed U.S. Detention Sites Overseas: Background and Legal Issues * The Commander's Responsibilities for the Delivery of Religious Support to Detainees in the JOA: Accommodation of Religious Needs Balanced with Necessary Security Concerns * Assessing the Efficacy of Capital Punishment in the War on Terror through the Lenses of History, Law, and Theory * Treatment of "Battlefield Detainees" in the War on Terrorism * The United States' Use of Harsh Interrogation Practices * The Fight for the High Ground: The U.S. Army and Interrogation During Operation Iraqi Freedom I, May 2003 - April 2004 * The Department of Defense Rules for Military Commissions: Analysis of Procedural Rules and Comparison with Proposed Legislation and the Uniform Code of Military Justice * The "Torture Memos": A Failure of Strategic Leadership * Detention of American Citizens as Enemy Combatants * Posture Statement of General John F. Kelly, United States Marine Corps Commander, United States Southern Command 2015 * Guantanamo Detention Center: Legislative Activity in the 111th Congress * Naval Station Guantanamo Bay: History and Legal Issues Regarding Its Lease Agreements 2015 * Wartime Detention Provisions in Recent Defense Authorization Legislation 2015 * Regaining the Moral High Ground on Gitmo. . . . Is There a Basis for Released Guantanamo Detainees to Receive Reparations?