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    Land mines are back. Why the U.S. wants them in its arsenal again.

    Feb 25, 2020 4 minutes
    Inside the Kabul Orthopedic Center of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan on Jan. 10, 2018, a workshop produces prostheses. Civilian casualties from land mines continue despite 164 countries' observance of a 1997 mine ban treaty.

    After being banned from planting land mines since 2014, the United States military can now use them once again, and Victorino Mercado admits it’s “a very emotional subject” – including within the halls of the Pentagon.      

    That said, “we’re not talking about what you see on TV,” added Mr. Mercado, the acting assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans, and capabilities, during a Pentagon briefing last month. The prohibitions against the old tripwire and pressure-plate land mines that have “really wreaked havoc” remain in place, and any newly deployed land mines must have safeguards to protect civilians. “If we weren't comfortable ... that we can mitigate the risk to our forces and ensure that we minimize civilian casualties, then we wouldn't probably

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