Dan De Luce is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, rose to prominence partly based on his searing criticism on Fox News of the rules governing U.S. troops in combat. Having served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Army National Guard, he argued that American soldiers were hampered by excessive constraints when battling jihadist extremists who “fight like savages.
They need them to be the most ruthless. The most uncompromising. The most overwhelmingly lethal as they can be.” Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, said the armed forces’ extensive training on the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. military’s code of conduct are designed to overcome the chaos that ensues on the battlefield.
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