Friday, March 14, 2003
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Talk about minimizing collateral damage
Michael Gordon, the New York Times chief military correspondent, has started writing a high-quality weekly column for nytimes.com called Dispatches. His latest essay analyzes the differences between how the military will prosecute Gulf War II as opposed to Gulf War I. The key grafs:
What's astonishing is the extent to which the military is implementing this strategy. Here's the final grafs:
I'm well aware of how triumphalist this sounds, but is there another military in the world that would care this much about minimizing the killing of enemy soldiers? posted by Dan on 03.14.03 at 10:43 AM |
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