Levy, Yagil - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 27 (2010) 4, pp. 386-405
The Gaza War between Israel and Hamas in winter 2009, in which excessive use of lethal force caused the deaths of many Gazan non-combatants, shed light on how casualty shyness leads democracies to use excessive force to reduce the risk to which soldiers are exposed at the expense of the...