Brian L. Cox

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The Megyn Kelly Show · "Second Strike" Narrative Falls Apart, Kash Patel Responds, and How To Be a Man, with Rich Lowry, Charles Cooke, Elliot Ackerman, and Bryan Cox | Ep. 1204 · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

And if we don't – so the context of the members of Congress who are being referred to as the seditious six –

They're making their case that this is not an armed conflict, that it should actually be human rights law that's applying and we should not be engaged in military strikes against these boats.

And that's an opinion and it's interesting academically.

But the troops who are involved in this conflict are not specialists in international law involving the resort to force.

And so that's at the political leadership level.

And so we are given orders.

You are in it.

We have determined the political leadership has determined that you are in armed conflict.

So apply law of armed conflict to this rather than human rights law.

And that is a – we're not in a position to understand whether that is unlawful or not.

We are going to comply with law of armed conflict.

It is.

So, it's dangerous at the individual level because if that troop, whoever it is, that service member refuses to obey the order, and it doesn't turn out that it's reasonably manifestly unlawful, then that, whoever it is, that service member is going to be court-martialed.

And that service member, you know, it's not going to be a defense that, well, I read on, you know, social media that Senator Mark Kelly said that I have an obligation not to do this, and so I didn't do it.

So that's not a defense, and so that service member is now at legal risk for having the impression that he or she does not need to follow this order when it actually is a lawful order, and so these external commentators are essentially trying to substitute their own understanding of what is or is not lawful for the actual

current chain of command from the Secretary of War all the way down to the tactical level.

So that's one issue for the individual concerned is that's not going to be a defense when they get court-martialed for this.

But then there's a more kind of

systemic concern with this, and that is it's sowing the seeds of doubt among those who are actually involved with carrying out orders.

And if there is hesitation in carrying out lawful orders, that's the whole reason why we train on this, how we train on the disciplined use of overwhelming force.

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