If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have. (Sebastian Junger)

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Sebastian Junger

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