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The US built a blueprint to avoid civilian war casualties. Trump officials scrapped it

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The US built a blueprint to avoid civilian war casualties. Trump officials scrapped it Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J. Bryant had pored over in his mission to overhaul how the U.S. military safeguards civilian life. Parents wept over their children’s bodies. Crushed desks and blood-stained backpacks p...
The strongest version of this narrative highlights a systemic shift in U.S. military policy under the Trump administration, where accountability for civilian harm was deprioritized in favor of aggressive lethality. The dismantling of the CHMR program and the firing of legal advisors suggest a deliberate move away from constraints on military action. The Minab school strike, if confirmed as a U.S. operation, would represent a catastrophic failure of targeting protocols, underscoring the risks of ...