The Cost of War: Weighing Civilian Losses in the Afghan War

SAGE Open

Jibey Asthappan¹ 

关键词: War on Terror;    Afghan War;    civilian losses;    effectiveness of war;    counter-terrorism;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244016640590

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Spending almost US$700 billion to combat insurgents in Afghanistan, the U.S. population should be hopeful that they “bought” something of value as the Afghan War concludes. This exploratory study focuses on evaluating operations within Afghanistan by accounting for enemy and civilian losses. Integration of civilian losses offers an opportunity to evaluate operations that represent societal losses to the Afghan people. Regression estimates using zero-inflated negative-binomial models indicate that military operations resulted in more civilian casualties than enemy losses.

【 授权许可】

CC BY