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What is collateral damage?

What is collateral damage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (military, euphemistic) Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that are the unintended result of military operations.
  2. Harm to innocent people that results from policy decisions.
  3. Unintended victims of an attack targeted at someone or something else.
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Even before a single missile has been launched there has been significant collateral damage, all of it on our own side.
Misguided or unguided precision munitions can lead to significant collateral damage and fratricide.
Finally, munitions must be able to destroy the target without causing undue collateral damage.
However, if such are killed in crossfire or if used as human shields, they become collateral damage.
The eternal droughts and continental erosion and melting polar ice caps, that's what you call your collateral damage.
Under these conditions, there is great risk of collateral damage to newsmakers.

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