Ofer Fridman

Enemy Civilian Casualties (eBook, PDF)

Politics, Culture, and Technology

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Civil casualties and collateral damage have been long considered as an undesired outcome of military activity that has to be reduced. While most of the contemporary discourse on this topic has been primarily concentrating on three main factors: the legal aspects of causing civil casualties, the impact of war on local population, and different factors of military professionalism required to avoid disproportional harm to civilians; this book asks an entirely different question. As the subject of civil casualties during military operations seems to be highly politicized, this book takes this discourse out of its usual niches and suggests that the indirect responsibility rests with the politicians and the public, which they represent. When a society, in the beginning of the 21st century, sends its troops to a battle, does it really care about the enemy civilian casualties? To answer this question, this book traces the political and cultural factors that have led to the failure of Non-Lethal Weapons - the great promise of the 1990s, which was intended to make the war significantly less lethal than it was known before. Examining three different cases, this study explains that the idea of minimizing civil casualties is no more than an illusion, and, in fact, neither politicians, nor societies, feel really stressed to change this situation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978752351
• Artikelnr.: 74397058

Autorenporträt

Ofer Fridman is lecturer in war studies and director of operations at the Kings Centre for Strategic Communications.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I: Non-Lethal Weapons -The Revolution in Military Affairs That Did
Not Occur
Chapter II: From the Frontier to the 'Protector of the Free World' - the
U.S. and Enemy Civilian Casualties
Chapter III: 'Besieged Fortress' and the Politics of 'Double Standards' -
Russia and Enemy Civilian Casualties
Chapter IV: 'Never Again shall Masada Fall!' - Israel and Enemy Civilian
Casualties
Conclusions: Enemy Civilian Casualties - Do We Really Care?