Colonel Frederic L. Borch (born 1954) was a career United States Army attorney with a master's degree in national security studies, who served as chief prosecutor of the Guantanamo military commissions. He resigned his commission in August 2005 after three prosecutors complained that he had rigged the system against providing due process to defendants. He was replaced by Robert L. Swann[1][2][3]
He worked for a time as a civilian consultant for the prosecution teams of the Guantanamo military commissions. In 2006 he was hired for the position of the first Regimental Historian and Archivist for the United States Army's Judge Advocate General Corps.[4] He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for 2012–2013 to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Leiden, teaching issues in terrorism and counter-terrorism.
He continued to serve as the Regimental Historian and Archivist while also taking on the mantle of Professor of Legal History and Leadership until his retirement from Federal civilian service in 2023. When he retired, he had completed ten books about Judge Advocates throughout history and is continuing to work on publishing more volumes. He has also published over 200 legal and historical articles.
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