Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War
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Hegseth Reverses US Landmine Ban, Rescinds $5B+ Humanitarian Demining Program
The Trump administration reversed decades of bipartisan progress toward eliminating antipersonnel landmines by authorizing their global use and simultaneously dismantling the US humanitarian demining …
- Defense Secretary Hegseth signed a memo on December 2, 2025, reversing the Biden-era policy that prohibited US use of antipersonnel …
- The same memo rescinded the US Humanitarian Mine Program, a decades-long government initiative that had provided over $5 billion in …