Good article but they didn't need the sensationalist title. "often" implies >50% in common discourse. The cited rate is 14.8%. terrible, but not often. Downvoted, unfortunately.
Edit: as comments below, and some searching online: "often" is subjective. So no, does not imply ">50% in common discourse"
Context matters, 15% failure rate for a weaopon is certainly often. Furthermore, what that means in the context of cluster munitions is that they just sit there long after the conflict is over, so when people stumble on them decades later they get maimed and killed.
This is currently happening in places like Vietnam that were subjected to these horrors by US. Now it's going to be the turn for the people of Ukraine.
Any pretenses that US actually cares about the people of that country have now been dropped.
I wouldn't say 'often' implies >50%, to imply that I would use something like 'mostly' or 'generally'. I think if you think about a 15% failure rate in something else, for example starting a car, saying it often fails would be pretty apt.
just refreshing their ammo stock and dumping the old one, also giving reason for military complex factories to stay open, and help 'create jobs' and all that washington nonsense.
Yes. That tends to be why they're banned by most countries.
The dud bomblets stay around, and get picked up by kids. Then go boom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions
Mines but with extra steps
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