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by dogma1138 640 days ago
You might want to check the combatant to civilian casualties ratio for other conflicts including western led post WW2 ones.

Iraq and Afghanistan had worse figures, by many reports even the drone part of GWOT was worse.

And those were generally fought in more permissive environments.

For the most part the single largest casualty cohort in any conflict are civilians achieving a 1:1 to 1:2 ratio depending on which figures you go by while tragic is actually quite impressive for a lack of a better word.