{"id":1097,"date":"2026-05-15T22:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:41:17","slug":"pentagon-quietly-shut-legally-required-program-to-prevent-civilian-deaths-by-military-watchdog-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration accused of cutting military\u2019s civilian harm program in light of US strike on girls school in Iran<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has<strong> <\/strong>quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2026\/May\/14\/2003930527\/-1\/-1\/1\/DOWIG-2026-084_REDACTED%20SECURE.PDF\">report<\/a> released by the department\u2019s inspector general concluded the US military no longer has the people, tools or infrastructure needed to comply with two federal statutes requiring it to maintain a functioning civilian casualty policy, and operate a Civilian Protection Center of Excellence (CP CoE).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/pentagon-civilian-death-program\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration accused of cutting military\u2019s civilian harm program in light of US strike on girls school in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}