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Us navy seal war crime trial8/23/2023 ![]() According to a confidential Navy criminal investigation report obtained by The New York Times, they gave him the bloody details and asked for a formal investigation. "Tired of being brushed off, seven members of the platoon called a private meeting with their troop commander in March 2018 at Naval Base Coronado near San Diego. But their frustration grew as months passed and they saw no sign of official action. "Navy SEAL commandos from Team 7’s Alpha Platoon said they had seen their highly decorated platoon chief commit shocking acts in Iraq. ![]() Indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine-gun fire. Picking off a school-age girl and an old man from a sniper’s roost. New York Times: " Navy SEALs Were Warned Against Reporting Their Chief for War Crimes" - "Stabbing a defenseless teenage captive to death. And we do well to remember this as we consider just how incredible the tasks and demands and moral burdens are that we place on the shoulders of that small slice of our population that wages war on our behalf. Yes, indeed, when the enemy contorts the very rules of warfare themselves against our efforts, it makes the challenge to fight honorably ever more difficult. Rather, just the opposite: The very reason our brave men and women do what they do in the first place, is precisely because they believe that they are fighting for a just cause, and waging war the right way, with noble and honorable means. The moral standards we should hold ourselves and our military to cannot be those of the enemy we fight. Yet this view does occasionally find a voice and it persists, especially in broader society’s own understanding of our military. This kind of broken moral thinking is - rightly and thankfully - rejected by the overwhelming majority of the SOCOM community. The other troubling narrative that one occasionally hears in these discussions is the notion that "they" - the enemy our military fights against - "do worse things to us," as if that therefore justifies or somehow gives license for wrongful behavior by our troops. It is, frankly, irresponsible and damaging to the ethical culture of the organization when we prejudge that process and, even worse, try to rally political leaders to weigh in and influence that process. Because note that these cases are devastatingly tragic whichever conclusions the trial ultimately comes to. We should not rally around either 'side' in these heartbreaking cases, but rather rally around the rule of law and the legal process itself, and trust in that. On the other hand, we also cannot stack the deck against those who were willing to speak out about what they believed was wrong either. And we must respect the military legal process and allow the case to play out. Yes, absolutely, on the one hand, every individual is innocent until proven guilty and that’s certainly the case here. However, I worry about the damage done to the ethical culture of our military, and especially Special Operations Command (SOCOM), when we politicize these cases and make them yet one more football in our culture wars. The ethical culture of any complex organization requires dutiful work and strong leadership - and, thankfully, our special operations forces have that and there is a sincere and strong commitment to building and driving an ethical culture within this community from the very senior leadership right through ranks. (Courtesy Parlatore Law Group) On Point Guest Bradley Strawser, On The Dangers Of Politicizing These Cases Author of " First, Fast, Fearless: How to Lead Like a Navy SEAL." ( Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher. ![]() He earned two Bronze Stars for valor and combat leadership. Author of the forthcoming "The Bounds of Defense: Killing, Moral Responsibility, and War." Co-author of " Who Should Die?: The Ethics of Killing in War." ( Hiner, retired lieutenant commander in the Navy SEALs. He also advises corporate leadership of Fortune 500 companies on organizational culture and ethical practice. He teaches ethics to military professionals in the Special Forces community and provides guidance on ethics education to senior leaders at Special Operations Command. ( Strawser, professor of philosophy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Guestsĭave Philipps, Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for the New York Times. We go inside the secret culture of America’s elite warriors. Navy SEALs turned in their leader for war crimes. Update,, from the Navy Times: Legal bombshell explodes on SEAL war crimes trial. Navy SEALs fires on insurgents from a rooftop Friday, Apin Ramadi 115 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq.
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