Pete Hegseth to Overhaul US Military Lawyers in Effort to Relax Rules of War

Thursday, March 13, 2025

The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general's corps

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NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to start a sweeping overhaul of military lawyers to make the US less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, per ppl familiar @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025 ... [image or embed]
-- Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM

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" too restrictive in interpreting rules of engagement and took the requirement that soldiers positively identify a target as an enemy combatant before opening fire"

What could possibly go wrong there?

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-13 01:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He's drunk.

#2 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-03-13 01:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Pat Tillman approves of this policy change.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-13 01:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Feeling great again, Trumpiclowns?

#4 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-03-13 02:46 PM | Reply

Someone with a lot more insight about this is my son, a Lt Col Army JAG, and has served in Afghanistan, as well as at the Pentagon, and after calling him about these changes he is all for it.

#5 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-03-13 03:46 PM | Reply

That's not saying much.

If your son wasn't guzzling the Orange Flavor-Ade, he would have been fired already.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-13 04:00 PM | Reply