US ground forces in Afghanistan and Iraq also privileged soldier protection over civilians.

Evidence

A decade later, Alex J. Bellamy produced a similar diagnosis, this time of the kinds of interventions that the American army carried out on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq: “It seems a clear pattern has emerged whereby the protection of US combatants takes precedence over the protection of non-combatants near the areas of operation… . Non-combatants will be protected so long as their protection does not require taking measures that may endanger the lives of soldiers.” This came down to valuing “the lives of combatants more than non-combatants.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 436

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hyperprotecting soldiers shifts the burden of risk onto civilians — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 300; Soldiers’ lives were redefined as citizens deserving protection above enemy civilians. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 439; A state can prioritize its own soldiers’ lives over unlimited foreign civilian casualties. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 441

Related

• Soldiers’ lives were redefined as citizens deserving protection above enemy civilians. (similarity 0.88)
• Hyperprotecting soldiers shifts the burden of risk onto civilians (similarity 0.87)
• A state can prioritize its own soldiers’ lives over unlimited foreign civilian casualties. (similarity 0.83)
• Just-war theorists reject prioritizing own soldiers’ safety over enemy civilians’ safety. (similarity 0.80)
• Combattant immunity for one’s own soldiers replaced non-combatant immunity as the top norm. (similarity 0.80)
• NATO prioritized pilot lives over the civilians the operation claimed to protect (similarity 0.79)
• Protecting national lives in war increases those lives’ social precariousness (similarity 0.79)
• Removing risk reduces the soldier to a mere executioner in need of new victimhood (similarity 0.79)
• Kasher and Yadlin formally ranked national soldier lives above enemy civilian lives (similarity 0.79)
• Israel formalized the doctrine that protecting Israeli soldiers outranks enemy civilians. (similarity 0.79)
• Preserving pilot lives at altitude undermined accuracy and civilian protection (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A state can prioritize its own soldiers’ lives over unlimited foreign civilian casualties. #corroborates (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 441