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The figures from the U.S. Central Command show a rate of one civilian death for every 200 strikes that U.S. planes have launched in Iraq and Syria.
That’s a vastly lower figure than the war in Afghanistan at its height — a rate of one dead civilian for about every 15 strikes — or during six years of counter-*terrorism strikes in countries including Pakistan and Yemen, where the White House in a recent study found that a civilian died for every four to seven strikes.
The relatively low death toll for Iraq and Syria is even more striking in light of the U.S. military estimate that 45,000 militants have been killed in two years of attacks by air and via long-distance rockets.
“The numbers that Centcom is putting out would suggest an order of magnitude increase in effectiveness,” said Christopher Kolenda, a former Pentagon official. “It just doesn’t come across as very credible.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-500-pound-bombs-struck-their-targets-in-a-syrian-village-but-whom-did-they-kill/2016/08/26/30324884-649d-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html?wpisrc=nl_draw2&wpmm=1