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From what I'm finding, service members can be court martialed for obeying unlawful orders, and can be charged for violating local laws while on duty. If you are court martialed for disobeying an order, you can raise a defense that the order was unlawful.

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I did find an example from Vietnam where an officer ordered his subordinates to massacre a village. The ones who obeyed were court martialed, the ones who refused weren't. Doesn't seem to have a limit where it comes from, as generals planned to disobey unlawful orders from Trump when he was in.

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