Hegseth Doesn’t Believe We Should Follow the Geneva Convention
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/pete-hegseth-book-attacks-nato-alliances
“What if we treated the enemy the way they treated us?” he asks. “Would that not be an incentive for the other side to reconsider their barbarism? Hey, Al Qaeda: if you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs.”
He also lobbied for Trump to pardon people convicted of war crimes. If this guy's SECDEF is there even a UCMJ anymore? How is me skipping a day of work an punishible offence if you can murder a prisoner and walk free?