Wake Up Call: Hegseth Seeks to Overhaul Military Lawyer Corps

March 14, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC

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  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to overhaul the military’s Judge Advocate General Corps to make the armed forces less constrained by the rules of war. The initiative, led by his newly commissioned legal advisor Tim Parlatore, aims to retrain military lawyers to provide more flexible legal guidance, allowing for more aggressive battlefield tactics and a more lenient approach to prosecuting soldiers for war crimes. (The Guardian)
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