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He is a retired U.S. Marine with twenty-six years active duty, having twice served in Vietnam, twice as a company commander. After Vietnam service he attended law school at the University of California at Davis, from where he is a Distinguished Graduate. Returning to active duty, he was a Marine judge advocate, then a court-martial judge. His Master of Laws degree (in criminal law) is from George Washington University School of Law. After military retirement, he earned a Ph.D. (law of war) from the London School of Economics & Political Science, then taught in The LSE’s Law Department for three years, before moving to the United States Military Academy in 1996. He directed West Point’s law of war program for six years and retired as a USMA professor of law in 2006. He was awarded the 2006 Apgar Award as West Point’s outstanding professor.
His books are Marines and Military Law in Vietnam, and Son Thang: An American War Crime, and a law of war textbook to be published by Cambridge University Press. He has published numerous law of war-related articles in American and international law journals.
Fred L. Borch is the Regimental Historian and Archivist for the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. A lawyer who earned his J.D. from the University of North Carolina, he retired after 25 years active duty as an Army lawyer and then received professional training as a historian (earning a Master's degree from the University of Virginia). In addition to military legal history, his areas of expertise are international law and criminal law, and he was a Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and the first Chief Prosecutor for the Defense Department's Office of Military Commissions.
In that last position, he was responsible for organizing and overseeing the prosecutions of alleged terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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