Collateral Damage

"Collateral damage" is a military term for the inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations. In Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II, Sahr Conway-Lanz chronicles the history of America''s attempt to reconcile the ideal of sparing civilians with the reality that modern warfare results in the killin...