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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Santa Monica, Calif. :
RAND,
©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.