"Collateral damage" is a military term for the inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations. In Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II, Sahr Conway-Lanz chronicles the history of America's attempt to reconcile the ideal of sparing civilians with the reality that modern warfare results in the killing of innocent people. Drawing on policymakers' response to the issues raised by the atrocities of World War II and the use of the atomic bomb, as well as the ongoing debate by the American public and the media as the Korean War developed, Conway-Lanz provides a comprehensive examination of modern American discourse on the topic of civilian casualties and provides a fascinating look at the development of what is now commonly known as collateral damage.
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Sahr Conway-Lanz is a historian and archivist. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of American foreign relations from Harvard University.
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refugee control policy, noncombatant immunity, percent unjustified, atomic blitz, harming noncombatants, information policy guidance, civilian warnings, massively destructive war, attacking noncombatants, civil destruction, discriminate manner, harming civilians, massively destructive weapons, strategic air warfare, optimistic denial, percent justified, warning leaflets, purely military targets, specific military targets, warning civilians, uneasy reconciliation, indiscriminate destruction, innocent noncombatants, discriminate use, mass bombing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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refugee control policy, noncombatant immunity, percent unjustified, atomic blitz, harming noncombatants, information policy guidance, civilian warnings, massively destructive war, attacking noncombatants, civil destruction, discriminate manner, harming civilians, massively destructive weapons, strategic air warfare, optimistic denial, percent justified, warning leaflets, purely military targets, specific military targets, warning civilians, uneasy reconciliation, indiscriminate destruction, innocent noncombatants, discriminate use, mass bombing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II by Ronald Schaffer on 5 pages
- Documents on the Laws of War by Adam Roberts on 4 pages
- On War and Morality [Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy] by Robert L. Holmes on 4 pages
- South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (June-November 1950) (United States Army in the Korean War) by Roy E. Appleman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Humanity in Warfare by Geoffrey Best in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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