ARTICLE:
A good article, a bit depressing (sorry for all the sad articles), but an especially important one to read when considering the chemical warfare attack on civilians in Syria.
SITE: http://www.unicef.org/graca/patterns.htm
Unicef, 2013
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The anatomy of war has changed significantly since the turn of the century. Doing fighting gun barrel to gun barrel has been replaced with pressing a button to unleash widespread chaos, often far from the battlefield. The target has also changed; no longer are countries aiming their attacks on soldiers, but rather they are attacking children and civilians. Civilian fatalities in wartime have gone from 5% in 1900 to 90% of casualties, and since the 1950s, more wars have started than stopped. The United Nations reported armed conflict kills more children than soldiers. There are several reasons for the sniper sight moving to the most vulnerable; conflict has changed. The source of many conflicts now are low intensity internal warfare that lasts much longer than traditional fighting. Wars are now fought from apartments and in the streets of local villages and cities, bringing the war into everyone's lives. In this way, the distinction between the battlefield and the civilian residences melt away. In addition, children soldiers have grown, with lightweight, easy to use weapons increasingly being put in the hands of what fighters consider expendable resources.
A good article, a bit depressing (sorry for all the sad articles), but an especially important one to read when considering the chemical warfare attack on civilians in Syria.
SITE: http://www.unicef.org/graca/patterns.htm
ARTICLE:
A good article, a bit depressing (sorry for all the sad articles), but an especially important one to read when considering the chemical warfare attack on civilians in Syria.
SITE: http://www.unicef.org/graca/patterns.htm
