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America’s European allies are tiring of the endless battles and mounting casualties.
Although Iraq still matters a lot to Americans, its importance for determining how they vote has receded, partly because US casualties there are markedly down as the security situation appears to be gradually improving.
Despite their elite status, the Guard lacked the skill to hold their ground or inflict casualties.
Beyond the direct danger of further casualties, there is the growing fear among populations, which populist politicians are eagerly attempting to exploit.
But by that point, it will be much more difficult and expensive to contain, resulting in far more casualties.
But it might also choose not to risk casualties on its own soil.
The number of casualties – not just from the violence, but also the collapse of health services and other consequences of state failure – is probably in the millions.
Competing with one another to prove who is tougher on crime, they have militarized the region’s police forces, and casualties have increased.
Four days' heavy fighting left the British with 4,500 casualties.
Some 50,000 men were involved in the new operation, but progress was slow because of rain and the need to keep casualties to a minimum.
The consequences – including military casualties and the threat of retaliation by the Islamic State – pale in comparison to the possibility of a grand bargain that secures his gains closer to home.
Yet none of this diminishes the tragedy that these civilian casualties represent.
If, say, the United Nations agreed to shoulder that responsibility, the war in Yemen could be ended very quickly, protecting civilians from further casualties.
But Israel has managed to attack Syrian territory twice – destroying a North Korean-staffed nuclear reactor in 2007 and, more recently, striking a Hezbollah convoy – with no casualties or loss of planes.
If the US responded in kind, the casualties would pile up quickly.
North Korea also has formidable conventional military capabilities, and estimates of human casualties could total as many as 25 million, depending on the types of weapons used, the geographical theater of the conflict, and the countries sucked into it.
But if the real truth is told, it is women who are the first casualties.
As China follows through on its pledge to retaliate, the casualties will include more than half the bilateral trade between the two countries, with China itself suffering the most losses.
After ten years of war, more than a hundred thousand casualties, mostly Iraqis, and an astronomical cost of almost $1 trillion, the US leaves behind an Iraq that is neither more secure nor especially democratic.
“Leveling the battlefield” by providing weapons to moderates is, at best, a prescription for prolonged violence, with even more civilian casualties and refugees.
Seventh, the civilian casualties arising from a military strike would be high.
Instead, they seem to want a solution reminiscent of nineteenth-century Ireland – which led to a century of casualties on both sides.
But Israel’s tanks did well enough in limiting Israeli casualties.
The contingency plan remained on the shelf because of the lack of casualties among Israeli civilians.
That would make a large-scale offensive by more than 45,000 soldiers a compelling necessity, justifying politically the hundreds of casualties it would have cost.
The outcry in Israel and the resulting massive Israeli military response inevitably causing high Palestinian casualties was clearly anticipated and indeed an integral part of the cold calculations of those who organized the attack.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai had referred to civilian casualties caused by US forces as a reason for not signing the agreement.
The war on terror is real enough, and not just a pretext, but so are the civilian casualties that have been occurring for years.
Civilian casualties caused by the US have been a major source of difficulties in US-Pakistan relations as well.
He pointed out that the number of Muslims killed by Al Qaeda’s terrorist attacks “dwarfs any estimate of civilian casualties from drone strikes.”
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