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Originally Posted by halla
what about sympathetic civilians offering themselves as human shields?
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Give them a Darwin award?
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Originally Posted by halla
what about non-state actors, "terrorists", using civilians as "human camouflage"?
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Depends on the situation. If it resembles as hostage situation treat it as such. If it's a covert cell operating "under the radar" and nobody knows what they are or where they are treat the situation as such.
Beyond that I think the degree of civilian complacency would have a lot to do with how much they are at risk.
If a bunch of obvious terrorists were operating out of somewhere in midwest America they'll have lots of space awful quick.
However if you live next door to a terrorist you may well get taken out along with them.
Hint. Do not carpool with people in Hamas if you live in Palestine.
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Originally Posted by halla
what about captive civilians used to protect an actor that uses them as sandbags while they send rockets into civilian populations of an enemy?
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Again depends on the situation and the civilians. If you send in ground forces and the civilians let you know who was responsible or it's immediatly obvious(like they're pointing rifles at the civilians.) Strongly avoid civilian casualties.
If when you get there nobody knows anything you'll be forced to act "faster" which will probably incolve snapping off return rocket fire which will probably take out some civilians.