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The Defense Department can incorporate checks and balances—specifically poststrike audits—into the targeting process to deter circumvention.
In a 9 February 2022 hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Crisis Group’s Chief of Policy Stephen Pomper recommended legal reform to reinvigorate Congress’s decision-making role in the current legal and structural status quo on U.S. counter-terrorism operations.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday ordered the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop an “action plan” to improve its mechanisms for how it prevents civilian deaths and the way it responds to and acknowledges claims of civilians harme
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the Department of Defense to develop an action plan to improve how it ...
"The protection of civilians is fundamentally consistent with the effective, efficient, and decisive use of force in pursuit of U.S. national interests," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote in a January 27 memo announcing a new initiative to mitigate harm to civilians and respond to any harm that may occur.