Saturday, January 25, 2025

Trump moves to close Pentagon office focused on curbing civilian deaths - The Washington Post

Officials who have worked in the Center of Excellence and on other aspects of the Pentagon's system for improving its record on civilian harm have sought to counter the perception that it imposes constraints on military commanders as they target adversaries or establishes punitive measures for personnel carrying out such missions.

Rather, they described the system, which includes more than 150 people across Defense Department offices and combatant commands, as a tool that provides commanders more information as they conduct operations, informing targeters or military planners about patterns of life in a particular area, identifying cultural sites and averting unintended deaths before they occur…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/23/trump-pentagon-civilian-deaths/


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