June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Text by Alexander Stockton and Lucy King
Mr. Stockton is a producer with Opinion Video.
Ms. King is a producer with Opinion Video.
Thousands of service members in the United States military report being sexually assaulted every year, but only a small fraction of those cases end in a conviction.
In the Opinion Video above, three contributors — a Republican senator; a former chief prosecutor of the Air Force; and a former Army specialist who said she survived several sexual assaults while enlisted — show how conflicts of interest in the military justice system result in so many assaults going unpunished.