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Yeah...I knew you would bring that up. I did the keyword search for 'years' and found the relevant passages."the Obama Administration excluded all Military-Age Males
from the collateral damage count in areas where the U.S engaged in drone warfare/ Though the
Military-Age Male (MAM) category references the draft, the term is applied to all boys and men,
including civilians, who are aged sixteen years and older."
That passage does not mean the US called 16 yrs old males as combatants as stated in the abstract.
In 2012, The New York Times reported that the Obama Administration excluded all Military-Age Males from the collateral damage count in areas where the U.S engaged in drone warfare/ Though the Military-Age Male (MAM) category references the draft, the term is applied to all boys and men, including civilians, who are aged sixteen years and older. The Military-Aged Male category is not synonymous with 'combatant,' but marks boys and men for differentiated treatment in conflict zones, to the point where male bodies are used as a shorthand for 'combatant' when assessing the collateral damage count.
It means that in the process of account for collateral damages, 16 yrs and older can be excluded from that accounting due the frequent enlistment of 16 yrs old into combatant services.
Not interested. It is considered impolite to provide paywalled sources because not everyone can afford or even unwilling to get them. I have no interested in doing the extra work.You can easily remove NYT and Indian media paywalls, there are plenty of extensions for chrome.