Saving Soldiers or Civilians?

Casualty-Aversion versus Civilian Protection in Asymmetric Conflicts

Paperback Engels 2021 1e druk 9781108446655
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Concerns for the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians have come to underpin Western, and particularly American, warfare. Yet this new mode of conflict faces a dilemma: these two norms have opened new areas of vulnerability that have been systematically exploited by non-state adversaries.

This strategic behaviour creates a trade-off, forcing decision-makers to have to choose between saving soldiers and civilians in target states. Sebastian Kaempf examines the origin and nature of this dilemma, and in a detailed analysis of the US conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq, investigates the ways the US has responded, assessing the legal, moral, and strategic consequences. Scholars and students of military and strategic studies, international relations and peace and conflict studies will be interested to read Kaempf's analysis of whether the US or its adversaries have succeeded in responding to this central dilemma of contemporary warfare.

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ISBN13:9781108446655
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:304
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:30-9-2021

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Introduction

1. US warfare and civilian protection
2. US warfare and casualty-aversion
3. The interactive dynamics of asymmetric conflicts
4. Case study I: the US intervention in Somalia
5. Case study II: the US war in Afghanistan
6. Case study III: the US war in Iraq

Conclusion.

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