New York,
Barack Obama proclaimed it loud and clear: a new page in military history was opening with the advent of drones and “smart” strikes. From now on, the “bad guys” would be eliminated, vaporized, without piling up civilian victims, while reducing “collateral damage” to the strict minimum. Former Oval Office tenant, taken aback by Daesh's lightning offensive in Syria-Iraq, announced a clean war, "
beyond the horizon
", which would allow bloodless America to avoid further deployments of GI in distant land. 1,300 “
credibility assessments
,” the denomination of the Pentagon's post-incident reports, reveal how hard these hopes were showered. From September 2014 to January 2018, said the
New York Times
reporter
,
Azmat Khan, the number of these incidents turns out to be considerable, and very largely unknown to the general public.
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