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> [The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seumas-milne/the-decision-to-rely-heavily-on-high-altitude-air-power-target-urban/)

Seumas Milne

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## More by Seumas Milne

> [The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seumas-milne/the-decision-to-rely-heavily-on-high-altitude-air-power-target-urban/)

Seumas Milne

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