← Back to context Comment by inigyou 19 hours ago What about intended collateral damage? 4 comments inigyou Reply zmgsabst 18 hours ago I don’t think it was intended.I think that when you’re bombing thousands of targets, a 0.1-1% targeting error rate leads to dozens of unintended collateral hits (and thousands of civilians dead) — and is among the many reasons wars are horrific. inigyou 18 hours ago What if someone tells you it's an elementary school and you ignore them? ModernMech 18 hours ago They hit the correct target. It's that although they could have, they didn’t check to see if it was a school first. zmgsabst 11 hours ago They did — in the targeting database which wasn’t correctly updated with the new analysis.That’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic mistake which gets exposed via wartime mishaps.
zmgsabst 18 hours ago I don’t think it was intended.I think that when you’re bombing thousands of targets, a 0.1-1% targeting error rate leads to dozens of unintended collateral hits (and thousands of civilians dead) — and is among the many reasons wars are horrific. inigyou 18 hours ago What if someone tells you it's an elementary school and you ignore them? ModernMech 18 hours ago They hit the correct target. It's that although they could have, they didn’t check to see if it was a school first. zmgsabst 11 hours ago They did — in the targeting database which wasn’t correctly updated with the new analysis.That’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic mistake which gets exposed via wartime mishaps.
ModernMech 18 hours ago They hit the correct target. It's that although they could have, they didn’t check to see if it was a school first. zmgsabst 11 hours ago They did — in the targeting database which wasn’t correctly updated with the new analysis.That’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic mistake which gets exposed via wartime mishaps.
zmgsabst 11 hours ago They did — in the targeting database which wasn’t correctly updated with the new analysis.That’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic mistake which gets exposed via wartime mishaps.
I don’t think it was intended.
I think that when you’re bombing thousands of targets, a 0.1-1% targeting error rate leads to dozens of unintended collateral hits (and thousands of civilians dead) — and is among the many reasons wars are horrific.
What if someone tells you it's an elementary school and you ignore them?
They hit the correct target. It's that although they could have, they didn’t check to see if it was a school first.
They did — in the targeting database which wasn’t correctly updated with the new analysis.
That’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic mistake which gets exposed via wartime mishaps.