Friendly Fire: Will We Get It Right This Time.

Abstract

The report discusses: Review of friendly fire in combat casualty surveys: Reassuring numbers such as two percent prevalence are nonsense, the casualty surveys demonstrate rates five, possibly ten times as great; and A risk of fratricide attaches to every weapon that is taken into battle.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 17, 1992
Accession Number
ADA328423

Entities

People

  • D. M. Sa'adah

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Operations
  • Ballistics
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Friendly Fire
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military History
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Operations
  • Munitions
  • Operations Research
  • Physicians
  • Second World War
  • Warfare
  • Wound Ballistics

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