{"id":8174,"date":"2025-02-23T07:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T07:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/hegseth-fires-militarys-top-jag-lawyers-in-pursuit-of-warrior-ethos\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T07:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T07:18:34","slug":"hegseth-fires-militarys-top-jag-lawyers-in-pursuit-of-warrior-ethos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/hegseth-fires-militarys-top-jag-lawyers-in-pursuit-of-warrior-ethos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth Fires Military\u2019s Top JAG Lawyers in Pursuit of \u2018Warrior Ethos\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s decision to fire the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force represents an opening salvo in his push to remake the military into a force that is more aggressive on the battlefield and potentially less hindered by the laws of armed conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hegseth, in the Pentagon and during his meetings with troops last week in Europe, has spoken repeatedly about the need to restore a \u201cwarrior ethos\u201d to a military that he insists has become soft, social-justice obsessed and more bureaucratic over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His decision to replace the military\u2019s judge advocate generals \u2014 typically three-star military officers \u2014 offers a sense of how he defines the ethos that he has vowed to instill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The dismissals came as part of a broader push by Mr. Hegseth and President Trump, who late Friday also fired <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-fires-cq-brown-pentagon.html\" title=\"\">Gen. Charles Q. Brown<\/a>, the country\u2019s top military officer, as well as the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/hegseth-navy-lisa-franchetti.html\" title=\"\">first woman to lead the Navy<\/a> and the vice chief of staff of the Air Force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By comparison, the three fired judge advocate generals, also known as \u201cJAGs,\u201d are far less prominent. Inside the Pentagon and on battlefields around the world, military lawyers aren\u2019t decision makers. Their job is to provide independent legal advice to senior military officers so that they do not run afoul of U.S. law or the laws of armed conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senior Pentagon officials said that Mr. Hegseth has had no contact with any of the three fired uniform military lawyers since taking office. None of the three \u2014 Lt. Gen. Joseph B. Berger III, Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Plummer and Rear Adm. Lia M. Reynolds \u2014 were even named in the Pentagon statement announcing their dismissal from decades of military service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A senior military official with knowledge of the firings added that the military lawyers had \u201czero heads up\u201d that they were being removed from office and that the top brass in the Army, Navy and Air Force were also caught unaware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The unexplained dismissals prompted widespread concern. \u201cIn some ways that\u2019s even more chilling than firing the four stars,\u201d Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brooks_rosa\/status\/1893145473822634384\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s what you do when you\u2019re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The firings do not seem to be related to a single dispute but rather appear tied to Mr. Hegseth\u2019s view of why the U.S. military struggled to achieve any significant victories in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he served in combat, and how he wants the military to operate under his leadership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his book, \u201cThe War on Warriors,\u201d which was published last year, Mr. Hegseth castigates military lawyers for imposing overly restrictive rules of engagement on frontline troops, which he argues repeatedly allowed the enemy to score battlefield victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hegseth derisively refers to the lawyers in the book as \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/14\/us\/politics\/hegseth-jagoff-confirmation-hearing.html\" title=\"\">jagoffs<\/a>.\u201d The term led Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and a West Point graduate, to ask Mr. Hegseth at a confirmation hearing whether he could effectively lead the military after disparaging it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hegseth\u2019s account of this period in his book and his Senate testimony conflict with how battlefield rules of engagement were set during the wars. Senior officers in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as Gen. David H. Petraeus, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/Petraeus_Issues_Rules_To_Avoid_Civilian_Casualties\/2118836.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">came to believe<\/a> that civilian deaths were turning the local population against U.S. forces and feeding the enemy\u2019s ranks. So these officers emphasized protecting civilian life even if it meant that U.S. troops might have to incur greater risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ultimately, the rules belonged to battlefield leaders and not their military lawyers. The axiom \u2014 \u201clawyers advise, and commanders decide\u201d \u2014 is a core piece of every military lawyer\u2019s education, current and former JAG officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hegseth\u2019s views on the laws of war could also put him in conflict with some of the senior military generals who currently serve under him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his book, he expresses repeated frustration with the international laws put in place after World War II to govern armed conflict. \u201cWhat do you do if your enemy does not honor the Geneva Conventions?\u201d he writes. \u201cWe never got an answer. Only more war. More casualties. And no victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To many senior commanders, the \u201cwarrior ethos\u201d isn\u2019t just about killing the enemy or winning wars. It also includes concepts such as discipline, honor and respect for the Uniform Code of Military Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCombat can spin out of control and lethality and fighting can turn quickly into murder when passions run wild,\u201d said retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The laws of combat are designed to protect civilians as well as troops from moral injury. Soldiers will have to think about the enemy and civilians they killed \u201cfor the rest of their lives,\u201d General Barno said, \u201cand knowing they did it in an authorized way bounded by the laws of our country and armed conflict is incredibly important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Mr. Hegseth\u2019s Senate confirmation testimony, lawmakers sought to pin him down on what he meant when he referred to the \u201cwarrior ethos\u201d and whether he believed U.S. forces should follow the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice even when America\u2019s enemies ignore them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His answers were often evasive. \u201cAn America First national security policy is not going to hand its prerogatives over to international bodies that make decisions about how our men and women make decisions on the battlefield,\u201d Mr. Hegseth replied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the president\u2019s first term, Mr. Hegseth appealed to Mr. Trump to issue pardons for U.S. troops accused or convicted of war crimes or murder for their actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. In October 2019, Mr. Trump called Mr. Hegseth to tell him that he was pardoning two soldiers and a Navy SEAL whose causes Mr. Hegseth had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/21\/media\/fox-news-pete-hegseth-trump-pardon-war-crimes\/index.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">championed for months on his Fox television show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president ended their conversation with a compliment that Mr. Hegseth wrote that he would \u201cnever forget and might put on his tombstone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president called him a warrior, using an expletive for emphasis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the pardoned soldiers was First Lt. Clint Lorance, who was turned in by his own troops after he ordered them to fire on unarmed Afghans over 100 yards away from his platoon, killing them. The soldier then radioed a false report claiming the bodies had been removed and couldn\u2019t be searched for weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Army convicted Lieutenant Lorance of second-degree murder and other charges and sentenced him to 19 years in prison. To Mr. Hegseth, the pardon Lieutenant Lorance received represented justice. U.S. troops engaged in battle need to be \u201cthe most ruthless, the most uncompromising, the most overwhelming lethal\u201d force on the battlefield, Mr. Hegseth wrote last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOur troops will make mistakes,\u201d he continued, \u201cand when they do, they should get the overwhelming benefit of the doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senior Army lawyers strongly disagreed with the decision to pardon Lieutenant Lorance, according to Pentagon officials. Among those most upset by the presidential pardon were the troops who served under him and made the difficult decision to accuse him of war crimes and testify at trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI thought of the Army as this altruistic thing,\u201d Lucas Gray, who served under Lieutenant Lorance in Afghanistan, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/national\/clint-lorance-platoon-afghanistan\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told The Washington Post<\/a>. \u201cI thought it was perfect and honorable. It pains me to tell you how stupid and naive I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Lorance stuff just broke my faith,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cAnd once you lose your values and your faith, the Army is just another job you hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/22\/us\/politics\/hegseth-firings-military-lawyers-jag.html\">Source 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