Friendly fire.... z Newsweeka

[Gość: Jurek]

....The dirty little secret of the Gulf War is that "friendly fire" accounted
for 24 percent of the U.S. dead. A rate this high is not an inevitable
consequence of the "fog of war." ...

...A similar lack of urgency lurks beneath one of the most notorious of
the "friendly fire" episodes on the Pentagon's investigations list: the one
last December in which a B-52 airstrike killed three Green Berets and numerous
anti-Taliban Afghans—and nearly killed Hamid Karzai, the man who subsequently
became Afghanistan's prime minister. It has been widely reported that the
disaster occurred because a ground-based U.S. targeter mistakenly radioed his
own coordinates to the bomber. The Los Angeles Times reported that this
happened because the ground controller failed to re-enter the proper target
coordinates after changing the batteries on his global positioning system
device, which was necessary because "after a battery change, the unit
automatically displays its own location.".....