Forces spare Afghan civilians
Coalition forces in Afghanistan are being trained to avoid civilian casualties even if that means sometimes refusing to respond to direct attacks, a senior officer said.
The careful approach is part of a broad counterinsurgency program, which U.S. commanders said has begun to yield information from a fearful population about the locations of Taliban forces and improvised explosive devices.
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Government and foreign troops are concerned ...
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Sense of changes in U.S. military doctrine, better explanation for why this is happening now.