From a Moonlit Beach to Quantico: Why Gutting the Rules of War (Project 2025, Trump) Endangers Us

Los Baños raid, Feb. 23, 1945. Photo: U.S. Army Signal Corps / National Archives (public domain).

A scene from a WWII film about captured U.S. Army nurses shaped how I think about the rules of war. As Trump and Project 2025 push a harder-edged military agenda—including using American cities as “training grounds”—we need to remember why the Geneva Conventions exist and what happens when nations abandon them.