Swirling around the debate over whether six lawmakers urging military members to disobey unlawful orders amounts to “sedition,” is an allegation that in the first strike against suspected drug boats coming out of Venezuela in early September, War Secretary ordered that two survivors from the initial strike, be taken out with a second missile after they were seen clinging to wreckage in the open sea.

If true, legal experts say it would be a clear violation of the Law of War , which the Pentagon’s own manual — updated in 2023 — says enemy combatants and other persons who are “wounded, sick, or shipwrecked,” shall be ”respected and protected in all circumstances.”

“Such persons are among the categories of persons placed hors de combat ; making them the object of attack is strictly p

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