JAGs and the rule of law

JAGs alone can't defend the rule of law, Prof. Dan Maurer argues in this Lawfare post. Excerpt:

To be sure, nothing can undo the damage of summarily relieving the three TJAGs left on the Department of Defense and the service JAG Corps. Like earlier leadership “massacres” (Thursday or Saturday), this too will be fodder for public debate and academic study, and will have negative downstream effects for those remaining—who are still expected to uphold the principles of the “dual profession” of arms and law. To the extent that [Secretary of Defense Pete] Hegseth’s relief of the TJAGs makes that harder, and existing occupational duties limit the provision of key advice to commanders unnerved by legally questionable orders, there is cause for alarm.