US War on Terror; US KIA in perspective of other US wars

Various Sources (Links provided inside) | November 19, 2004 | Stockpirate

[stockpirate]

Revolutionary War
US War dead (KIA per month) 55
Months at war 80
Average US KIA per day 1.80

War of 1812
US war dead (KIA per month) 75
Months at war 30
Average US KIA per day 2.46

Mexican War
US war dead (KIA per month) 87
Months at war 20
Average US KIA per day 2.85

Civil War
US war dead (KIA per month) 3,846
Months at war 48
Average US KIA per day 126.10

Spanish-American War
US war dead (KIA per month) 96
Months at war 4
Average US KIA per day 3.15

WWI
US war dead (KIA per month) 2,816
Months at war 19
Average US KIA per day 92.33

WWII
US war dead (KIA per month) 6,639
Months at war 44
Average US KIA per day 217.67

Korea
US war dead (KIA per month) 909
Months at war 37
Average US KIA per day 29.80

Vietnam
US war dead (KIA per month) 526
Months at war 90
Average US KIA per day 17.25

Gulf War
US war dead (KIA per month) 148
Months at war 1
Average US KIA per day 4.85

*War on Terror
US war dead (KIA per month) 60
Months at war 21
Average US KIA per day 1.96

* March 2003 - November 18, 2004
* Figure does not include those killed on 9/11

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm

http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

[stockpirate]

FYI

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[SeeRushToldU_So]

Good work!

[FourtySeven]

Thank you for posting this. I saw something similar once before and didn't save it. I'm not going to make the same mistake again.

[The_Reader_David]

A stunning testimony to the benefits of modern technology in arms, armor, command-and-control, and trauma medicine. We have way more men in the field than in the early wars of the Republic, our enemies have weapons far deadlier than the cannon and musket deployed by the British, and yet the number of deaths per day is down there with the War of Independence and the War of 1812.

[steplock]

most of the credit of lowering the KIA rate is the MEDICINE & CORPSMEN who without, all the medicine in world would have been useless!

We would be even lower if we can totally remove LAWYERS from the USA.

[RicocheT]

Thank you for the good information.

Still, the war on terror is a new style of war and comparisons are not one to one.

Now, we are stalking a dangerous foe. The contacts of mass groups are few and far between. When it happens as in Fallujah, the KIA count goes up. As we are in a long war where the will of the nation is being tested, even a low number of our war dead weigh heavy on our minds.

We must steel our wills, honor our dead and wounded and not shirk from the task of defeating those who would take our freedoms away for us.

[TJC]

Thanks

[stockpirate]

Thanks, I was tired of hearing how many of our troops have been killed, and having it look like the numbers were soo high.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

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