Defense Minister Pete HegSeth is the expulsion of the army’s senior lawyers, the navy and the Air Force, Salafu, in a batch of his reshaping the army in a more aggressive force in the battlefield and may be hindered by the laws of armed conflict.
In his meetings, during his meetings with the forces last week in Europe, the Pentagon spoke in the Pentagon last week in Europe, repeatedly from the need to restore the “spirit of warriors” to the army that insists that it has become soft, a socially obsessed social obsession and more bureaucracy over the past two.
He presents his decision to replace the judge, the army, the generals-usually three-star military officers-a sense of how he defines the ethics he pledged to instill them.
The separation operations came as part of a broader batch of Mr. Higseth and President Trump, who was launched late on Friday as well General Charles K. BrownThe best military officer in the country, as well as The first woman to lead the navy And Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
In comparison, the three generals, the lawyer, also known as “jags”, are less clear. Inside the Pentagon and on the battlefields all over the world, military lawyers are not decision -makers. Their mission is to provide independent legal advice to senior military officers so that they do not contradict American law or armed conflict laws.
Senior Pentagon officials said that Mr. Higseth had no contact with any of the three united military lawyers since he took office. None of the three – Lieutenant General Joseph B.
A senior military official added to the firefighter that their military lawyers were “zero and they are heading that they were removed from his post and that the highest in the army, the navy and the Air Force had also been arrested.
Unjustified separation operations pushed widespread anxiety. “In some respects, this is more chilling forever Books on x. “This is what you do when you plan to break the law: get rid of any lawyers who may try to get you up.”
The shooting does not seem to be linked to one conflict. Rather, it appears to be linked to the vision of Mr. Higseth about the reason for the US military’s struggle to achieve any great victories in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he served in the fighting, and how the army wants to work under its leadership.
In his book, “The War on the Warriors”, which was published last year, Mr. Higrith is offering military lawyers to impose it on the rules of engagement excessively on the front lines forces, and he argues that he allowed the enemy repeatedly and repeatedly registration of the battlefield victories.
Mr. HegSeth refers sarcastically to the lawyers in the book “as”.Jagoffs“The term Senator Jack Reed, the Democrat in Rod Island and West Point, to ask Mr. Higseth in a confirmation session whether he could actually lead the army after he underestimated it.
Mr. Higseth’s novel for this period in his book and his certificates in the Senate is inconsistent with how the rules for participation of the battlefield during wars. Senior officers in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as General David E. Petraeus, It came to believe Civil deaths were the transformation of the local population against American forces and feeding the enemy ranks. Therefore, these officers confirmed the protection of civil life even if that means that the American forces may have to have a greater danger.
In the end, the rules were concerned with the leaders of the battlefield, not their military lawyers. The current and former officers said that the intuitive – “the lawyers present, and the leaders decide” – an essential part of the education of every military lawyer.
The views of Mr. Higseth about the laws of war can put it in a conflict with some of the major military generals who are currently serving under his leadership.
In his book, he expresses the frequent frustration of international laws that were placed after the Second World War for the rule of armed conflict. “What do you do if your enemy does not honor the Geneva Conventions?” He writes. “We didn’t get an answer. More war. More losses. No victory.”
For many leading leaders, “warrior ethics” is not only related to killing the enemy or winning wars. It also includes concepts such as discipline, honor and respect for the unified military justice law.
“The fighting can go out of control, killing and fighting, it can quickly turn into killing when wild emotions go,” said the retired General David Barno, who led the American forces in Afghanistan.
Fighting laws are designed to protect civilians as well as ethical injuries. General Barno said that the soldiers will have to think about the enemy and the civilians who were killed “for the rest of their lives” and knowing that they did this in a specific way the laws of our country and armed conflict is very important. “
In a certificate of confirmation of the Senate for Mr. Higseth, the legislators sought to determine what he meant when he referred to the “warrior ethics” and whether he believed that the American forces should follow the Geneva Conventions and the rules of unified military justice even when they ignore the enemies of America.
His answers were often eloquent. Mr. Higseth replied: “The first national security policy in America will not hand over its powers to international bodies that make decisions on how our men and women make decisions in the battlefield.”
During the term of the first president, Mr. Higseth resumed Mr. Trump to issue amnesty to the American forces accused or convicted of war or killing crimes due to their actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. In October 2019, Mr. Trump called Mr. Higseth to tell him that he was pardoning two soldiers and the seal of the navy caused by Mr. Higseth He defended for several months in his television program in Fox.
The President ended their speech with a courtesy written by Mr. Higseth that he “will never forget and may put on his grave.”
The president described him as a warrior, using a obscene word to confirm.
One of the pardoned soldiers was the first lieutenant Clint Lawrence, who was delivered by his forces after he ordered them to shoot the unarmed Afghans 100 yards from his species, killing them. Then the soldier broadcast a false report claiming that the bodies were removed and it was not possible to search for weapons.
The Lawrence Lawrence army has condemned the second -degree murder and other charges and sentenced him to 19 years in prison. For Mr. Higseth, Lieutenant Lieutenant Lawrence received the actress. Mr. Higseth wrote that the American forces involved in the battle need to be “the most cruel, the most surprising, and the most fatal” in the battlefield, as Mr. Higseth wrote last year.
He continued: “Our forces will make mistakes,” and when they do so, they must get the overwhelming benefit. “
The senior army lawyers have not strongly agreed to the decision to pardon Lawrence, according to the Pentagon officials. Among the most bothering of the presidential amnesty are the forces that served under his leadership and made a difficult decision by accusing him of war crimes and testimony in the trial.
“I thought about the army as an altruism,” Lucas Gray, who served under Lawrence in Afghanistan I told the Washington Post. “I thought it was perfect and honorable. It hurts me to tell you how stupid and naive.”
He said: “The broken things broke my faith,” adding: “Once you lose your values and faith, the army is just another job that you hate.”
