The “civilianization” — for lack of another word — of casualties is one of the most striking trends of modern warfare. It means that women and children especially, who make up the majority of noncombatants, are at ever greater risk. Are child soldiers a problem of economics, AIDS, or something else? Child soldiers are connected to the AIDS epidemic in part because these children are sometimes AIDS orphans. They work for and live with armies because that’s the only group providing for them. The orphan crisis in Africa is very much related to the child soldier crisis and is also a reflection of even more fundamental trends in social disintegration.
Modern Warfare 3 English Language Pack
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