IG Finds Civilian-Protection Efforts Eviscerated Under Hegseth at Pentagon
A Pentagon Inspector General report says funding and staffing cuts to civilian harm mitigation under War Secretary Pete Hegseth crippled the DoD’s ability to implement the 2022 CHMR-AP by FY2025, with 11 objectives and 133 implementing actions incomplete and the data-management platform discontinued, raising civilian-protection and readiness risks and drawing charges that the review whitewashes the program’s dismantling.