[uksupport1]

I don’t think the British military and the British people can be blemd for the statistical research of a newspaper. These casualty rates are higher that those of the US in Vietnam (1 in 46) and the British in Korea. Of course, thopse conflicts used far greater logistics trails.

Britain is also losing more troops proportionally in Iraq than the US.

[uksupport1]

*blamed*

[MNJohnnie]

Which is another way of misleading by statistics. Militarily if the UK cannot sustain this sort of casualty rate the British military may as well be disbanded.

The UK has taken a total of 168 casualties in Iraq

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Out of a total military strength of around 380,000 that is a casualty rate of .000442 in 4.5 YEARS of war.

Out of a total military age population available for service of around 23,500,000 that represents a total casualty rate of .00000714.

IF the UK cannot sustain this rate of casualties, it may as well disband it military since it is of utterly no practical use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Armed_Forces