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Pentagon Slashes Civilian Harm Database Staff, Sparks Legal Outcry

7/20/2026

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The Pentagon cut the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence staff to nine and stopped its civilian-harm database.
A Pentagon inspector-general report found the effort largely inactive after the cuts.
Senator Elizabeth Warren and nine other Democrats wrote that the cuts violate federal law.
Airwars, which documented hundreds of civilian deaths in Iran, Yemen and other regions, noted that Pentagon lacks a database after canceling the CHMR Data Management Platform project.

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The Pentagon cut the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence staff to nine and stopped its civilian-harm database.
A Pentagon inspector-general report found the effort largely inactive after the cuts.
Senator Elizabeth Warren and nine other Democrats wrote that the cuts violate federal law.
Airwars, which documented hundreds of civilian deaths in Iran, Yemen and other regions, noted that Pentagon lacks a database after canceling the CHMR Data Management Platform project.