A study conducted by the Rand Research Foundation, and published yesterday, Thursday, criticized the American army due to "large palaces" and conflicts in its review of allegations of civilian casualties..The Pentagon announced a wide -ranging review in this field.
The US military is under an intense review of its procedures related to avoiding civilian casualties after an attack by a drone in Kabul on August 29, killing 10 civilians, including 7 children..
Not only did the US military fail to target, but the Pentagon was initially evaluated after the strike that it had killed ISIS operatives who were preparing for a bombing attack against American forces..
The study conducted by the Rand Foundation, based on the legislation issued by Congress, concluded that the methodology of the methodology of the Ministry of Defense caused them to be shortened in the performance of its duties with regard to civilian victims..
The report said that "the Ministry of Defense is not organized, trained, or is appropriately equipped to fulfill its current responsibilities to address the damage to civilians.".
The report also indicated that the investigation of civil losses is often the responsibility of novice personnel "who do not receive official training".
Michael McNerney, one of the reporters of the report, said that the US military often granted compensation "in the form of financial" gifts "to the families of the victims without recognizing its legal responsibility, in Afghanistan and Iraq..
"The Pentagon needs to clarify more the purpose of these payments.Are they present to help American forces or unit leaders as some have used it in Afghanistan?Or should it be used to admit errors and accountability? ”.
New reforms
For his part, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the Pentagon officials on Thursday to conduct reforms to reduce the number of civilian deaths with military strikes after a number of these victims fell in unjustified accidents..
In a note, Austin confirmed that protecting civilians is a "strategic and moral duty".He added, "We will review our evaluation methods of accidents that may have been harmed by civilians, and we will admit the damage to civilians and use the lessons extracted from them in preparing for future operations and implementing them.".
Austin gave the Pentagon for 3 months to provide him with an action plan to avoid losses of civilians as much as possible, then an additional 3 months to develop new instructions for drone operators and their leadership sequence.
He also decided to establish a "concession center" to develop better tools capable of reducing the risks to civilians, and to collect all the incidents faced by the various leaders of the American army in the world, in one database with the aim of extracting lessons from them.