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[Amarok]

Enemies or civilians used in that way are referred to as human shields or as collateral damage.

Nope shields would be keeping them near your troops as a protective wall . I'm talking about about sending them forward against their own lines by coercion or trickery to absorb incoming fire or disrupt their front formations .And they can both be collateral and cannon fodder as the distinction between civilian and enemy combatant in more ancient times was not a clean cut idea.