Deserters in T2K

[StainlessSteelCynic]

The two examples you quoted make for interesting reading, proving that "desertion" isn't so simple as the definition makes it sound.
Personally I tend to think for the Twilight War that once the "Good luck, you're on your own" order is given, desertion is meaningless in a national military sense and it's going to be defined by whoever commands a group irrespective of whatever legal, national, group size and command parameters used to apply.