eric, 6 months ago

"War deaths from malnutrition and a damaged health system and environment likely far outnumber deaths from combat."

"An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in US war zones since 2001, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting."

at Brown University: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians

During 1990–2017, #wars contributed about 29 million civilian #deaths on the planet, not #counting killing: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01708-5

#statistics #mortality #diseases #starvation

eric, 6 months ago

… "This choice implies a ‘transfer of risks’ to non-Western civilians (Shaw 2006)."

in Mathias Delori (2019): https://www.mathiasdelori.com/publications/humanitarian-violence-how-french-airmen-kill-or-let-die-in-order-to-make-live/ @ethics @military @armee

#proportionality #killing #morality #warfare #wars #war #tech #rules #ethics #casualties #collateralDamage #warCrimes #airStrikes #bombing #weapons #arms #counterTerrorism #FrenchArmy #army #productivity #bias #civilians #grievability #violence #anthropology #techCulture #engineering #Afghanistan #Libya #Mali #France #NCCV #NCV #ROE