My brother spent a career in the Army Special Forces. My son graduated from West Point and flies Army helicopters. I have listened to two generations of family describe what happens when the people around them on a deployment do their jobs, and what happens when they do not. Specialist Winston Hencely learned that lesson in 2016, when a Taliban operative walked onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan in a suicide vest.

The bomber, Ahmad Nayeb, was on Fluor Corporation’s payroll under Afghan First, the Army’s local-hiring program. Hencely tackled him before he reached a larger crowd, and survived with a fractured skull and brain injuries. Five soldiers did not survive, and 17 more were wounded. The Army’s own investigation found Fluor had negligently supervised the man who killed them.

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Hencely sued Fluor in state court, alleging exactly what the Army had already found. Fluor’s answer was not that it did nothing wrong. Its answer was that the lawsuit could not exist at all, because the misconduct happened in a war zone, and war zones, Fluor argued, come wrapped in a legal force field.........

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