Collateral damage
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Collateral damage is damage that is unintended or incidental to the intended outcome. The phrase is prevalently used as an euphemism for civilian casualties of a military action.
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See also
- Collateral
- Civilian casualties
- Civilian casualty ratio
- Geneva Conventions
- Externality
- Philosophy of war
- Realpolitik
- Total war
- War crime
- Aesopian language
- Targeted killing
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