📚 noun • entry_id 58579
collateral damage
Meanings (ES + gloss)
daño colateral
Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that is the unintended result of military operations.
A certain amount of collateral damage and destruction to the surrounding environment has always been viewed as a necessary but generally undesirable by-product of military conflict…
But the most critical tension concerns the need to balance minimal own-casualties and low collateral damage with operational effectiveness.
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