Trump To Abolish Pentagon Office On Civilian Deaths

The Washington Post reports:

The Trump administration is moving to abolish a Pentagon office responsible for promoting civilian safety in battlefield operations, suggesting that incoming Defense Department leaders may attempt to loosen restrictions on U.S. military operations worldwide. The office, housed within the Department of the Army, is tasked with helping the military to limit unintended civilian deaths.

Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who has promised to make the U.S. military more lethal, has complained about overly restrictive rules of engagement and said that service members “fight lawyers as much as we fight bad guys.” The center’s roots lie in the thousands of civilian deaths that occurred in decades of U.S. counterinsurgent operations following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

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