Who else is there to compare to? There haven’t been a lot of counties doing that sort of fighting recently other than Russia, the US-led coalition, and now Israel. We don’t have the numbers for Israel yet but my guess is that they’ll be in the range of 2 to 3 civilians per combatant, leaving the USA as the best and Russia as the worst by far. With that said, direct comparisons are a very oversimplified way of looking at this because, for example, Hamas in Gaza is better armed and more heavily fortified than ISIS in Mosul was.
As for My Lai: massacres like that attract the most public attention but they account for a very small fraction of civilian casualties. Most civilians are killed by routine bombings and artillery bombardments, not by infantry going on a killing spree against orders.
Who else is there to compare to? There haven’t been a lot of counties doing that sort of fighting recently other than Russia, the US-led coalition, and now Israel. We don’t have the numbers for Israel yet but my guess is that they’ll be in the range of 2 to 3 civilians per combatant, leaving the USA as the best and Russia as the worst by far. With that said, direct comparisons are a very oversimplified way of looking at this because, for example, Hamas in Gaza is better armed and more heavily fortified than ISIS in Mosul was.
As for My Lai: massacres like that attract the most public attention but they account for a very small fraction of civilian casualties. Most civilians are killed by routine bombings and artillery bombardments, not by infantry going on a killing spree against orders.