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Reply-To: "Patrick Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
From: "Patrick Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: Casualty Aversion
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:48:31 -0500
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> Question for you. Do you have a good sense of what the Classicists would
have to say on such
> concepts as "non-combatant immunity" and "casualty aversion" during times
of conflict?

Isn't that part of what Hanson is arguing about in his work?  That the Greek
method of warfare was designed to minimize collateral casualties, and limit
combatant casualties?

BTW, OC, do you have a reference for the Beziers quote?  Or anyone else?

PTR



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