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Firing a projectile at an individual combatant?

• dlubarov 10mo ago
  Projectiles hit the wrong target all the time. Especially when we get into artillery or air strikes where there's no line of sight to a uniformed soldier, commanders can't be sure if they're going to hit the intended target. That's why we have the principle of proportionality rather than an impossible standard of zero collateral damage.
  • thunderfork 10mo ago
    But surely "the most targeted strike of all time" would be "a single-target strike on a visually confirmed intended individual", right? Or at least that would be more targeted than any strike without LoS?
    • dlubarov 10mo ago
      A parent comment claimed it was the most targeted “operation”, not “strike”. Some small individual strikes have 100% perfect targeting; I think the claim was about large scale operations like artillery barrages or aerial campaigns. (I think the claim is technically false if we include open field conflicts, but probably true if we narrow it to comparable environments.)