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The news about civilian casualties is also less bad than it used to be.
And they also do not properly account for civilian suffering more generally.
Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian casualties is clearly lower today than it was a decade ago, is good news.
We should have limited ourselves very, very strictly to the protection of the civilian population in Benghazi.
Imagine what it means for your personal security as a heavily armed civilian population gets angrier and angrier about why this was allowed to happen.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it just took four days for the government to ban the production of civilian cars and to redirect the auto industry, and from there to rationing of food and energy.
Also today's military revolution in energy efficiency is going to speed up all of these civilian advances in much the same way that military R&D has given us the Internet, the Global Positioning System and the jet engine and microchip industries.
Instantaneously, every civilian GPS receiver around the globe went from errors the size of a football field to errors the size of a small room.
The second problem that we became aware of was a very inadequate veteran reintegration, and this is a topic that is front page news right now as veterans are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and they're struggling to reintegrate into civilian life.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think there are tons of great uses for unarmed civilian drones: environmental monitoring, search and rescue, logistics.
So Richard Ledgett is the 15th deputy director of the National Security Agency, and he's a senior civilian officer there, acts as its chief operating officer, guiding strategies, setting internal policies, and serving as the principal advisor to the director.
Both civilians, obviously, and soldiers suffer in war; I don't think any civilian has ever missed the war that they were subjected to.
Canine veterans of conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan are coming back with what's considered canine PTSD, and they're having a hard time reentering civilian life when they come back from deployments.
And that put me in touch with such diverse design examples as the aerogels from the Lawrence Livermore Lab in California; at that time, they were beginning to be brought into the civilian market.
And then as peace comes, all of these technologies get all of a sudden available for the civilian market.
Many of you might know that the Potato Chip Chair by Charles and Ray Eames comes exactly from that kind of instance: fiberglass was available for civilian use all of a sudden.
What we have as a result is 200,000 civilian victims, 160,000 of those killed in the communities: small children, men, women, the elderly even.
We need civilian security, we need sustainable civilian-centered security, and we need it now.
You can help to smuggle this civilian body count into government archives.
And so, I became aware that there was a spectacle associated with our own people who were dying overseas, but a disproportionate amount of casualties were the civilian casualties.
They dressed like civilian peasants in black, silk pajamas with a checkered scarf.
Many NASA technologies developed for space are now widely used in civilian life, from memory foam in mattresses to freeze-dried food, to LEDs in cancer treatment.
Hospitals can no longer treat patients, entire regions without heat or clean water, all ultimately causing tens of thousands civilian deaths.
Commandeering civilian planes and using them as weapons, dropping atomic bombs, the use of gas chambers or poisonous gas in conflict, all of these actions, if committed, constitute acts of war and war crimes under customary international law and the Hague conventions.
Back in Britain, she mounted another campaign, this time for civilian hospitals, and insisted that the same design principles were applied to them.
When soldiers come back from the front line, they're not going from a military environment to a civilian environment.
And then, suddenly, I was a civilian again.
But I was surprised by how complex the transition was from military to civilian.
But also, because I didn't know how to apply the things I learned in the military to a civilian context.
There's not a lot of places you can put those skills in the civilian world.
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