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Current Events » in reply to Oh, well.

Modern warfare

Actually, we should be thanking our lucky stars that our modern skills in warfighting have progressed to the point where ten to twenty Allied deaths in a campaign is considered a shocking casualty level. Our forefathers in WWI and WWII would have given anything to trade their ghastly casualty levels--friendly fire or not--for ours.

Our precision attack capabilities have gone a long way to reducing non-combatant casualties in enemy territory as well. I hope the massive civilian deaths of WWII or even Viet Nam will remain a thing of the past, although some harm inflicted is unavoidable (even blowing up power plants without loss of life causes civilian hardships, however tactically necessary).

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