The Pentagon this Monday has said that President Joe Biden has forced new rules. The rules pertain to how the military and intelligence services can perform drone strikes and commando raids in some conflict zones. These restore the kind of White House control over that decision-making process that President Donald Trump tried to dismantle. Why is our former great president always talked about so dismissively and thrown under the bus?

Pentagon – New Rules for “Interim Guidance”

The new rules represent “interim guidance.” It is providing to “ensure the president has full clarity on proposing, major actions, which the National Security Council will review.”

It is necessary for this review. Moreover, it will serve as a sign of how difficult and unclear the rules governing America’s shadow wars. To how they have become in most current years.

Legal and Policy Frameworks

Part of a broader review is the action. This is by the new administration into the legal and policy frameworks that rule when and how these missions take place outside of parts of the world such as Yemen or Somalia. They are most apparent as war zones like Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

“It may be too early to come to grips with what the reality maybe, or the influence it’s going to have on particular parts of the world or on specific terrorist groups,” Kirby said.

“It’s in the meantime. Thereby it is not meant to be permanent. It does not mean it’s a cessation” of these strikes or missions, he added. “In fact, the authorities in some parts of the world are going to be visibility at the National Security Council.”

First reported in The New York Times was the review last week. It cited some unnamed officials they said national security adviser Jake Sullivan first had issued an order on January 20th. It was Biden’s first day as president. In fact, the new restrictions would create stricter controls on how the military and spy agencies think of, then plan for and execute the kinds of secretive missions that have become known with the broad and changing post-Sept. 11 wars against violent fanatical – ones that every president since George W. Bush has vowed to end and relied on untethered interpretations of U.S. law to carry out.