Ethics & International Affairs Volume 29.1 (Spring 2015): "Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars" by Neta C. Crawford

Mar 10, 2015

Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars, Neta C. Crawford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 512 pp., $39.95 cloth.

Review by Saba Bazargan

This latest work from Neta Crawford focuses on the causes and consequences of, as well as accountability for, collaterally killed civilians in recent U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen. It is the most comprehensive work of its kind.

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