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Targeting Civilians in War
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Pages: 329
Authors: Alexander B. Downes
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this v
The Deaths of Others
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: John Tirman
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq--and rightly so. But
Killing Civilians
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Hugo Slim
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massa
The War Against Civilians
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Vasja Badalič
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-16 - Publisher: Springer

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This book provides a critical analysis of how the “war on terror” affected the civilian population in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This “forgotten war,” wh
Sparing Civilians
Language: en
Pages: 169
Authors: Seth Lazar
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Killing civilians is worse than killing soldiers. Few moral principles have been more widely and viscerally affirmed. But in recent years it has faced a rising