Miscellaneous files about conscientious objectors

This is a collection of government files I have collected concerning the conscientious objector (CO) process in the United States.  Many of these files are outdated; whatever analysis they provide is probably no longer relevant.  They are probably not of interest to you, unless you are doing some serious historical work.

Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports

• GAO-07-1196 (2007) “Number of Formally Reported Applications for Conscientious Objectors is Small Relative to the Total Size of the Armed Forces”

• GAO/NSIAD-94-35 (1993) “Conscientious Objectors - Number of Applications Remained Small During the Persian Gulf War”

• GAO/NSIAD-98-199 (1998) -“Gender Issues - Changes Would be Needed to Expand Selective Service Registration to Women”

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Publications

• “An Assessment of Health Status Among Medical Research Volunteers who Served in the Project Whitecoat Program at Fort Detrick, Maryland” (2005) - 2000 conscientious objectors volunteered to have biological weapons tested on them rather than fight in combat

• “Restructuring the In-Service Conscientious Objector Program” (1993) - Army JAG argues that in-service CO regulations are too lenient and need to be restricted

• Technical Report 70-1, and Appendix (1970) - Army manual about training medical corpsmen who are also 1-0-A conscientious objectors

Department of Defense Regulations

• DODd-1300.06 (1971) - All changes after this date appear to be trivial.  This regulation is a significant deviation from previous regulations, however, which I do not have copies of.

• DODd-1300.06 (1975)

• DODi-1300.06 (2007)

Publications by Military Law Journals (Army Lawyer and Military Law Review)

These are full journals, not just the relevant article.  Do a search for “conscientious objector” to find the relevant section.

• “‘I Won’t Participate in an Illegal War’  - Military Objectors, the Nuremberg Defense, and the Obligation to Refuse Illegal Orders” (2010)

• “Reclaiming the In-Service Conscientious Objector Program: Proposals for Creating a Meaningful Limitation to the Claim of Conscientious Objection” (2008)

• “Time to Exorcise Another Ghost from the Vietnam War: Restructuring the In-Service Conscientious Objector Program” (1993)

• “Religious Accommodation in the Military” (1987)

• “Religion and the Military: Recent Developments” (1985)

• “Free Exercise of Religion and Selective Conscientious Objection: A Judicial Response to a Moral Problem” (1979)

• “Conscientious Objectors and Courts-Martial: Some Recent Developments” (1971)

• “Nuclear Weapons: The Crisis of Conscience”(1985) - Discusses conscientious objection in relation to nuclear pacifism and denunciation by Catholic Bishops of nuclear weapons

• “They Step to a Different Drummer: A Critical Analysis of the Current DOD Regulations vis-a-vis In-Service Conscientious Objectors” (1970)

• “Selective Service Litigation and the 1967 Statute” (1970)