{"title":"Nick Harrison","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"blood-honor-military-service-the-law-and-the-cost-of-institutional-failure-paperback","title":"Blood \u0026 Honor: Military Service, the Law, and the Cost of Institutional Failure - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNick Harrison enlisted in the Army, deployed to war, earned a law degree between overseas assignments, and sought a commission in the Judge Advocate General's Corps to complete his military career. He believed in the institution he served. He followed its rules. Then, after being diagnosed with HIV, he found himself confronting a military policy that had fallen behind the science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time Harrison asked to continue serving, the medical consensus was clear: HIV is not transmissible when a person is undetectable. Much of that research had come from military medicine itself. The Department of Defense said a policy rewrite was underway. Harrison submitted a narrow request to keep serving in a limited capacity while the policy was reconsidered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, the request forced him through every level of the chain of command, up to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense. His privacy disappeared. The policy rewrite was shelved. And Harrison became a named plaintiff in litigation challenging the military's HIV policies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood \u0026amp; Honor\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir of service, law, loyalty, and institutional accountability. It asks what honor requires when the institution you serve becomes the obstacle you must confront.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51458374140127,"sku":"9798994541616","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YXC4fIgkBk9798994541616.webp?v=1790358827"},{"product_id":"blood-honor-military-service-the-law-and-the-cost-of-institutional-failure-hardcover","title":"Blood \u0026 Honor: Military Service, the Law, and the Cost of Institutional Failure - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood \u0026amp; Honor\u003c\/em\u003e is a first-person account of military service, public administration, and impact litigation that examines how authority functions inside the U.S. military and the civilian institutions responsible for overseeing it. Nick Harrison is an enlisted infantry combat veteran who earned a law degree while deployed overseas and later sought a commission in the Judge Advocate General's Corps to complete his military career. By that time, medical consensus had established that HIV is not transmissible when a person is undetectable, with much of that research originating in military medicine. The Department of Defense publicly stated that it was revising its HIV policies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelying on those representations, Harrison submitted a narrow request to continue serving in a limited, non deployable capacity while the policy rewrite was underway. The request did not challenge the policy itself. Instead, it triggered a prolonged administrative process that required a junior noncommissioned officer to carry his case through every level of the chain of command, culminating at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense. Personal privacy gave way to institutional scrutiny. When the request was denied and the policy rewrite was shelved without explanation, Harrison turned first to Congress and then to federal court, ultimately serving as a named plaintiff in impact litigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the case unfolded, Harrison experienced the system as a soldier, combat veteran, lawyer, federal program manager, lobbyist, activist, and public figure. That convergence provides a clear view into how authority is exercised and deferred across military and civilian systems. Rather than focusing on individual malice, \u003cem\u003eBlood \u0026amp; Honor\u003c\/em\u003e examines institutional structure, tracing how a decision making model optimized for combat migrates into governance and policy administration and shapes accountability in democratic institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68045349978335,"sku":"9798994541609","price":43.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2_ycm6_HBl9798994541609.webp?v=1792047080"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nick-harrison.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}