Legal analyst Ryan Goodman over the weekend took apart the Department of Defense's reasoning for the so-called "double tap" strike that killed survivors clinging to the wreckage of a purported drug transporter. He added that, "The Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology goes to the heart of the latest DoD claims about the strike," before defining the new assertion: "The claim is that the second strike was targeting the (possible) cocaine, not the shipwrecked." Goodman noted that the Methodology states that "the laws of war (LOW) require anticipated 'noncombatant' deaths must not be excessive in relation to expected military advantage to be gained (the possible cocaine)," before further adding, "Noncombatants defined to include shipwrecked."
Author: David McAfee
Published at: 2025-12-13 21:16:22
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