As a Fox News commentator and author, Pete Hegseth spent years railing against the military’s Judge Advocates General — experts in military law who advise commanders on rules of engagement and laws of war — by accusing them of hamstringing troops in the name of political correctness.
In his position atop the Pentagon as the newly renamed “Secretary of War,” he is now acting on those feelings by taking steps to reduce the influence of those lawyers or cut them entirely out of decision-making as his department embarks on controversial deployments to American cities and unprovoked strikes on alleged drug smuggling craft.
