The report found isolated incidents "where leaders had subjected soldiers to derogatory name-calling" and evidence of "inappropriate cadence calls" when soldiers led with derogatory marching chants.
While the exposure of French military personnel to nuclear radiation during weapons tests has been well documented, the 1998 report appears to represent the only concrete indication to date that military officials intentionally subjected soldiers to potentially dangerous conditions.
He also signed the Rome Treaty of 1998 that established an International Criminal Court, which would subject American soldiers and officials to unaccountable international prosecutors and judges for alleged war crimes (including, potentially, the undefined crime of "aggression").
Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri, a Democrat who is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, warned that the agreement could subject American soldiers to Iraqi prosecution and complained that parts of the agreement would be left for joint committees to resolve in the future.
The subject of soldiers winning the VC has been popular with artists since the medal's inception.
Under Army rules, a superior is allowed to subject a soldier to certain kinds of "corrective measures," including "verbal reprimands and a reasonable number of repetitions of authorized physical exercises".
Bradley Manning supporters have long pointed to Flynn as a key figure in the decision to subject the soldier to an extreme regime, bringing the issue closer to the centre of the Obama administration.
Most startlingly, he is the darling of "Madison Rising", a rock group that calls itself America's "most patriotic", performing songs about such stirring subjects as soldiers, guns, pick-up trucks and Ronald Reagan (sample lyrics: "He was the Gipper, he had the knack.
These top officials ignored warnings from lawyers in every branch of the armed forces that they were breaking the law, subjecting uniformed soldiers to possible criminal charges and authorizing abuses that were not only considered by experts to be ineffective, but were actually counterproductive.
The bottom two floors of the prison have long been used to detain soldiers subject to courts martial.
