{"id":1340,"date":"2026-04-23T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:19:23","slug":"letter-of-over-100-international-law-experts-on-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"Letter of over 100 international law experts on Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/w700d1q75cms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1341 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/w700d1q75cms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/w700d1q75cms.jpg 550w, http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/w700d1q75cms-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Since the start of the second Trump administration, the Defense Department under Secretary Hegseth has deliberately and systematically weakened the protections meant to ensure compliance with international humanitarian law. This includes removing senior military lawyers without publicly citing misconduct, and replacing the Army, Navy, and Air Force judge advocates general, directly undermining legal oversight of combat operations. It has also abolished \u201ccivilian environment teams\u201d and other mechanisms specifically designed to limit harm to civilians during operations. The 2026 National Defense Strategy omits references to civilian protection and international law entirely. These changes are especially concerning in light of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s comments that rules of engagement interfere with \u201cfighting to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the start of the second Trump administration, the Defense Department under Secretary Hegseth has deliber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}