image sourced from original article at The United States Defense Department said it is conducting a strategic reassessment of its efforts to reduce civilian harm, signaling potential changes in how those responsibilities are organized. In a statement, the department said the review would inform a future reorganization and that related functions have been streamlined into combatant command operations.
The announcement follows reporting that outdated intelligence may have contributed to a United States missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 165 people, many of them children. Critics have argued that the military reduced the size and focus of offices dedicated to civilian protection and slowed efforts to improve intelligence practices.
While the department did not directly address those reports, it acknowledged that a reorganization is underway, raising questions about how civilian casualty prevention will be handled going forward.
