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Tag: commando

Killer elites: Why top soldiers are prone to murder

by Andrew Salmon December 7, 2020December 10, 2020

In the latest blow to the moral credibility of US-led military coalitions in the Middle East, evidence has surfaced that Western soldiers have been murdering locals in conditions far removed from the fog of war. The allegations cover deliberate shootings and even throat slittings of captured personnel – very different from the various “collateral damage” […]

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