Collateral Damage Edit Meaning

1.

Military slang for the mass murder of civilians through the use of weapons which are known in advance to be imprecise and/or to cause damage across a large area (e.g. cluster bombs).

Dead babies in Fallujah.

2.

Needless explosions causing loss of woman/children and or irreplaceable artifacts

"Generic military rank is celebrating the capture of whatever city in small warring country by coalition forces done with minimal collateral damage"

See Pheidippides