Role of the United States in an arms race

  

Civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghan wars:

Civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghan wars After years of legal proceedings and months of investigation, the New York Times has concluded that the number of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan is far higher than the United States has acknowledged.

 

 

                                               Civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghan wars:

 Summarizing its efforts to investigate US wars in the Middle East, the newspaper wrote: "This reflects deaths and inadequate accountability.

The newspaper gained access to Pentagon documents in March 2017 through a lawsuit filed against the US Department of Defense and Central Command and a request for freedom of information.

New York Times correspondents also visited more than 100 victims and interviewed survivors, as well as former and current U.S. service personnel.

The study, published in a two-part report this week, found that US air warfare was "extremely poor" and that hundreds of civilian casualties were "extremely low."

The document disproves the Pentagon's claim that drone technology has made it possible for part of a house to be destroyed by enemy fighters while the rest of the structure remains intact.

 

A New York Times report reveals that in five years, US forces have carried out more than 50,000 airstrikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

Noting that the military must go through extensive protocols for estimating and reducing civilian casualties before launching airstrikes, the report acknowledges that often available intelligence can be "misleading." This can be short-lived or can sometimes lead to catastrophic mistakes. "

The newspaper pointed out that sometimes aerial videos do not show people under plants in buildings or tarpaulins or aluminum walls.

"Available data can be misinterpreted, such as when people flee the site of a recent bombing and are considered militants rather than rescuers," the report added.

                                                   Civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghan wars:

"Sometimes motorcyclists attack in a certain way when they are just motorcyclists," the report said.

The New York Times cited three specific reports to substantiate its claim.

One of them was the July 19, 2016 incident when US Special Forces bombed three hideouts of ISIS terrorists in the northern Syrian region, killing 85 militants and 120 farmers and other villagers, according to initial reports. Were

Another example was the November 2015 attack in the Ramadi region of Iraq, in which a man was seen dragging a heavy object into an ISIS stronghold, while a survey revealed that the object There was, in fact, a child who was killed in an airstrike.

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Role of the United States in an arms race