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An argument for documenting casualties : violence against Iraqi civilians 2006 /

Protecting the civilian population is one of the central tenets of U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine. Until very recently, however, the U.S. military has not had a formal system for documenting the level of violence directed against Iraqi civilians. Therefore, other groups (such as nongovernmental org...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Katharine
Otros Autores: Stahl, Dale
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, ©2008.
©2008
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Counting Iraqi civilian deaths
  • The Lancet studies
  • United Nations reports
  • Iraq body count
  • Iraqi government statistics
  • Conclusions
  • Detailed analysis of RAND's civilian violence dataset
  • The RAND dataset
  • A closer look at 2006 : who is being attacked, where, and how
  • Conclusions
  • Recent developments : COIN and the U.S. military's data collection effort
  • COIN and Iraq : doctrine versus reality
  • The reduction of violence in 2007 : General Petraeus and the surge
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusions and recommendations : a better collection framework
  • References.