"It stopped a piece of shrapnel produced by strafing from a US Douglas A-1 Skyraider. Was she "in bounds?"" Civilian casualties are generally avoided if possib

"It stopped a piece of shrapnel produced by strafing from a US Douglas A-1 Skyraider. Was she "in bounds?"" Civilian casualties are generally avoided if possible. I'm happy that your grandmother was saved, but it's not relevant. "Can you see how using Body Count as a metric would tend to produce "targeting" of the metric which would result in the targeting of people to turn into corpses?" No. 'Body count' is used in every war and has been since the dawn of time, and we continue to use it today as one of many metrics. Using this metric will not encourage professional soldiers to arbitrarily murder civilians.