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Letter: Not all casualties in war are soldiers

Published 2 May 2018

From Geoff Browne, Sydney, Australia

You report Aaron Clauset classifying the size of a war by the number of soldiers killed (3 March, p 15). Civilians aren't included. This criterion leads to the bizarre consequence that a war (nuclear or otherwise), fought by artificial intelligence and killing few soldiers but millions of civilians, would be unworthy of recognition as a “large war”.

Issue no. 3176 published 5 May 2018

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