62 No. 77 JUSTICE of historical crimes and their commitment to accountability. Most importantly, they establish principles that transcend any specific case: that participation in systematic violence, however seemingly peripheral, constitutes shared responsibility; that time does not diminish obligation to pursue justice; and that confronting historical crimes, however belatedly, serves essential purposes for both victims and societies seeking to prevent the recurrence of such atrocities.n COL (Ret) David Cotter, PhD, is the Dean of Academics, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the Chief Academic Officer of Army University, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was formerly the Director of the Department of Military History in the Command and General Staff School. He has been a member of the College faculty since 2009 and was previously a faculty member of the Department of History, U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He has a PhD in Holocaust and Genocide history from Gratz College. In the recent past he has made military history-related presentations to the Society for Military History, the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Dole Center for Politics at the University of Kansas, the National World War I Museum, and the Naval War College. Dr. Cotter is a retired military officer of 32 years’experience including combat deployments in command of a battalion and, subsequently, a brigade.
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