Pentagon concedes it’s reworking how it wants to handle efforts to minimize civilian casualties

The US Defense Department says in a statement that its efforts to reduce civilian harm are “currently undergoing a strategic reassessment to inform its future reorganization.”

AP has reported that outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children.

The Pentagon does not address media reports and critics who have said that the military slashed the size of its mission central to civilian protection and that the emphasis on updating intelligence has come to a near halt.

The statement does acknowledge, however, that a “reorganization” is being conducted and that functions to reduce civilian casualties have been “streamlined” directly into the operations of combatant commands.