[6] During his military career, he was infantry platoon leader and company commander, including two combat tours during the Iraq War.
[21] According to a foreign policy adviser of Netanyahu, Spencer believes "Israel sets the gold standard in terms of preserving civilian lives".
[22] Spencer claims that Israel's mass calling and texting of Gazan civilians, giving them days, and then weeks to evacuate, and roof knocking before airstrikes are practices that no military has ever implemented before.
[24] While these claims were later picked up by Netanyahu, Professor Michael Spagat of the University of London writes that Spencer's conclusions, and the statistics he cites, are both false.
[25] The myth that 80-90% of casualties in war are civilians was popular among government officials in the 1990s, but by 2010 it had been debunked by the Red Cross, World Health Organization and others.