Modern wars are about restraint as much as killing. Trump is undermining that mission.
has been decried for eroding military discipline and tainting the country’s image. But the action also indicates that the commander in chief knows little about the U.S. armed forces or the wars they’ve been fighting.Lt. Clint Lorance, Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, and Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher. Lorance was freed after serving six years of his 19-year sentence for shooting a group of civilians in Afghanistan, then covering it up.
This principle of relative restraint created dilemmas for commanders—for instance, whether to bomb a building that housed insurgents, even if innocent civilians might be killed as well. Debates were held, sometimes in meetings involving the president, over where the line should be drawn: How many civilian deaths were permissible, given the value of killing the insurgents in question?death of civilians.
Eugene Fidell, a lawyer specializing in military law and a lecturer at Yale Law School, told me that, by this standard, Trump as the commander in chief could be seen as violating the Law of Armed Conflict. “The tenet of command responsibility holds that a commander can be punished if he fails to take steps to prevent war crimes committed by his troops—or to punish them afterward,” Fidell said. By pardoning these three, Trump in a sense violated that tenet.
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