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Imprecision Warfare

by mike · 2002-02-13

“Despite the adulation of Operation Enduring Freedom as a ‘finely tuned’ or ‘bulls-eye’ war, the campaign failed to set a new standard for precision in one important respect: the rate of civilians killed per bomb dropped,” he says. “In fact, this rate was far higher in the Afghanistan conflict – perhaps four times higher – than in the 1999 Balkans war.”

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