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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806973403321

Autore

Crawford Neta

Titolo

Accountability for killing [[electronic resource] ] : moral responsibility for collateral damage in America's post-9/11 wars / / Neta Crawford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-998174-4

0-19-998173-6

0-19-998172-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 p.)

Disciplina

172/.42

Soggetti

Military ethics - United States

Civilian war casualties

War victims

Guilt and culture - United States

War - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Grammar and vocabulary -- How they die -- Norms in tension -- When soldiers snap -- Command responsibility -- Organizational responsibility -- Political responsibility -- Public responsibility -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In May 2009, American B-1B bombers dropped 2000-pound and 500-pound bombs in the village of Garani, Afghanistan following a Taliban attack. The dead included anywhere from 25 to over 100 civilians. The US military went into damage control mode, making numerous apologies to the Afghan government and the townspeople. Afterward, the military announced that it would modify its aerial support tactics. This episode was hardly an anomaly. As anyone who has followed the Afghanistan war knows, these types of incidents occur with depressing regularity. Indeed, as Neta Crawford shows in this book, they are intrinsic to the American way of warfare today.