Bugsplat : the politics of collateral damage in western armed conflicts / Bruce Cronin.

"Why do states who are committed to the principle of civilian immunity and the protection of non-combatants end up killing and injuring large numbers of civilians during their military operations? Bugsplat explains this paradox through an in-depth examination of five conflicts fought by Western powe...

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Main Author: Cronin, Bruce, 1957- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Physical Description:180 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Collateral damage and western war-fighting strategy -- The Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- NATO's air war against Serbia, 1999 -- Israeli-Hezbollah War, 2006 -- The U.S. war against Al Qaeda, 2002-2017 -- Assessing collateral damage. 
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