{"id":73724,"date":"2026-05-19T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/defense-department-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-us-airstrikes-on-alleged-drug-boats\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:02:37","slug":"defense-department-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-us-airstrikes-on-alleged-drug-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/defense-department-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-us-airstrikes-on-alleged-drug-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense department watchdog opens inquiry into US airstrikes on alleged drug boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials will determine if standard process was followed before lethal strikes in Caribbean and eastern Pacific<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s internal watchdog has opened an investigation into whether US military commanders followed proper procedures when conducting boat strikes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/caribbean\">Caribbean<\/a> and the eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The office of inspector general at the Department of Defense is examining whether military commanders stuck to the standard six-step process the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">US military<\/a> is required to follow before approving and carrying out lethal strikes, according to a memo initiating the review.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/19\/defense-department-inquiry-airstrikes-alleged-drug-boats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials will determine if standard process was followed before lethal strikes in Caribbean and eastern Pacific Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Pentagon\u2019s internal watchdog has opened an investigation into whether US military commanders followed proper procedures when conducting boat strikes in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. The office of &#8230; <a title=\"Defense department watchdog opens inquiry into US airstrikes on alleged drug boats\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/defense-department-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-us-airstrikes-on-alleged-drug-boats\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Defense department watchdog opens inquiry into US airstrikes on alleged drug boats\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}