Air Force officer, pilot, Oxford Philosophy PhD. DoD Liaison to SCSP. Author, "Is Remote Warfare Moral?" https://t.co/L1nV18zySR This is a personal account.
May 4, 2019 • 12 tweets • 11 min read
What is so valuable that it’s worth killing and dying for? (A thread)
In war, we have to measure human costs & compare it to the cost of doing nothing. This is hard work.
Recent work by @Amnesty/@Airwars/@danmahanty/@annieshiel helps to show us why. (1/13)
@Amnesty/@Airwars recently released a report on civilian casualties (#CIVCAS) in the fight for #Raqqa in which they claim that the coalition (@CJTFOIR) killed 1600 civilians (compared to the coalition claim of only 159) from June-Oct 2017. (2/13)
