Protecting Civilians: Military Expert Marc Garlasco (Sept., 2009)

Marc Garlasco, senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch, specializes in battle damage assessment, military operations, and interrogations. Garlasco leads Human Rights Watch's work on civilian military contractors and non-lethal weapons. He has led research teams to Gaza to investigate home demolitions in Rafah, Lebanon to document the use of cluster bombs, and Afghanistan, Iraq, and Georgia to assess the conduct of the war. Garlasco is the co-author of multiple Human Rights Watch reports and has been featured in articles in major American media. Before joining Human Rights Watch, he covered Iraq as a senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. Garlasco has a B.A. in government from St. John's University and an M.A. in International Relations from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. 

Videos

Rain of Fire: White Phosphorous in Gaza (2009)

In the Field with Marc Garlasco (2008)

Protecting Civilians in War: Ending the Use of Cluster Munitions (2007)

Reports
A Dying Practice
Use of Cluster Munitions by Russian and Georgia in August 2008
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/04/14/dying-practice-0

Rain of Fire
Israel's Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/03/25/rain-fire

Troops in Contact
Airstrikes and Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2008/09/08/troops-contact-0

Flooding South Lebanon
Israel's Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2008/02/16/flooding-south-lebanon-0

"No Blood No Foul"
Soldier's Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul

Leadership Failure
First Hand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2005/09/22/leadership-failure-0

Razing Rafah
Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2004/10/17/razing-rafah-0

Off Target
The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2003/12/11/target-0