#Afghanistan us drone strike how to
Our research suggests that Obama’s policy shift drastically reduced civilian casualties in Pakistan, offering a possible guidebook for how to minimize the type of civilian deaths witnessed in late August. President Donald Trump relaxed Obama’s restrictive targeting protocol in favor of the more permissive “reasonable” certainty standard for civilian causalities, initially adopted by the Bush administration. Shortly following his inauguration in 2017, former U.S. The policy shift enabled Obama to instill higher degrees of morality and legality into the drone strike approval process, which was also important to rehabilitate the United States’ image abroad given its “ quasi-secretive” use of drones. That is, the data obscures the number of civilian casualties deemed acceptable during any given strike, which is a politically motivated calculation that shapes the overall rate of killing.īetween 20, the Obama administration implemented a “near certainty” standard of no civilian casualties during strikes in undeclared theaters of operations. What the data doesn’t show is variation in the targeting standard for U.S. Of these, between 800 and 1,750 are thought to have been civilians. strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen from 2002 to 2020 killed between 10,000 and 17,000 people. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), for instance, U.S. Indeed, widely available data reflects the prevalence of civilian casualties resulting from U.S. Based on 3,000 documents disclosed by the Pentagon, the study alleges to have identified “an institutional acceptance of an inevitable collateral toll” during U.S.
A recent report suggests that the botched strike is indicative of a larger trend.
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