Sebastian Kaempf, Saving Soldiers or Civilians? Casualty-Aversion versus Civilian Protection in Asymmetric Conflicts. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Lionel Beehner, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Department of Defense & Strategic Studies Department and Research Director of West Point’s Modern War Institute. He reviews books for Parameters, the Journal of Politics and other publications. He is the coeditor of the forthcoming volume, Blurred Lines: Civil-Military Relations and Modern War.