Latest in civilian casualties
Maintaining deliberate balance between divergent approaches is necessary for operationalizing the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response-Action Plan to optimize joint targeting processes without compromising military effectiveness and national security.
The new plan will protect civilians while preserving military effectiveness.
A former targeting professional and civilian harm mitigation advocate breaks down the Pentagon’s new 11-point action plan to reduce civilian harm in conflict.
Codifying the protection of civilians as a commander’s explicit objective in all operations is an essential step toward reducing noncombatant casualties.
The Defense Department can incorporate checks and balances—specifically poststrike audits—into the targeting process to deter circumvention.
The department found that there were approximately 23 civilians killed and approximately 10 civilians injured during 2020 as a result of U.S. military operations.
New data is available about U.S. military sympathy payments. What are these payments? What does the data reveal?
The U.S. Department of Defense has released the 2018 edition of its annual report on civilian casualties in connection with U.S. military operations. The full report is available below.
In a scathing New York Times op-ed today, Micah Zenko lays into the Trump administration both for maintaining the “counterproductive” and “immoral” counterterrorism policies of its predecessors (particularly those involving the use of military force), and for making the situation worse for noncombatants.