Afghanistan ROE Change

[jmm99]

only one side of the story. The data required for a full LOAC analysis is probably not open source. You would need something like the following for each air strike:

Type (CAS, UAV, HAB - whatever other types there are)

No. PGF involved; KIA & WIA (any fratricide ?)

No. AGE involved; KIA & WIA

No. NC involved; KIA & WIA

Based on the report, a couple of events = a lot of KIA & WIA. How many airstrikes involved no NC casualties, for example. The idea is to get at the overall military necessity and proportionality.

The professionals here can improve on this by correcting the terminology, etc.

[carl]

jmm399

Here is a link for the executive summary of the CENTCOM report on the bombing in Farah in early May.

http://www.centcom.mil/en/press-rele...-province.html

It gives most of the info you would need but only for one incident. I thought it very interesting.

[jmm99]

thanks for the link. I'm downloading the report (9MB) and will read it tomorrow. The problem with one report of huge NC casualties is that it may (since I don't have the metrics) overwhelm the worth of a 100 airstrikes that killed only enemy and saved US lives. On the other hand, Tac Air may not be so important in this kind of armed conflict. I simply don't know.

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