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Originally posted by bhutocracy
heheh damn.. I wonder how many US troops will die.. out of the 300k there how many you think will be urban fighting and how many are support, logistics and desert warfare? it's so going to be more than the couple of hundred last time... we'll probably lose a couple out of our 3000.
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From infoplease.com - 532,000 U.S. forces served in Operation Desert Storm. There were a total of 148 U.S. battle deaths during the Gulf War, 145 nonbattle deaths, and 467 wounded in action.
Work the numbers and you get a 0.00563% rate of death. 0.00279 rate of death for battle deaths, and 0.002735 rate of death for non-battle deaths.
I'd expect to see a bit higher death rate than the Gulf, but certainly nothing as terribly managed as Vietnam. Before we were cleaning them out of Kuwait in open fields. This time we'll be sending soldiers directly into cities where Iraqi soldiers will be hiding.
Here are some numbers from past wars:<blockquote>American Revolution (1775?1783)
Total servicemembers 217,000
Battle deaths 4,435
War of 1812 (1812?1815)
Total servicemembers 286,730
Battle deaths 2,260
Indian Wars (approx. 1817?1898)
Total servicemembers 106,000
Battle deaths 1,000
Mexican War (1846?1848)
Total servicemembers 78,718
Battle deaths 1,733
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 11,550
Nonmortal woundings 4,152
Civil War (1861?1865)
Total servicemembers (Union) 2,213,363
Battle deaths (Union) 140,414
Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Union) 224,097
Nonmortal woundings (Union) 281,881
Total servicemembers (Conf.) 1,050,000
Battle deaths (Conf.) 74,524
Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Conf.) 59,2972
Nonmortal woundings (Conf.) unknown
Spanish-American War (1898?1902)
Total servicemembers 306,760
Battle deaths 385
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 2,061
Nonmortal woundings 1,662
World War I (1917?1918)
Total servicemembers 4,734,991
Battle deaths 53,402
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 63,114
Nonmortal woundings 204,002
Living veterans (102)3 2,212
World War II (1940?1945)
Total servicemembers 16,112,566
Battle deaths 291,557
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 113,842
Nonmortal woundings 671,846
Living veterans (80)3 5,032,591
Korean War (1950?1953)
Total servicemembers 5,720,000
Battle deaths 33,686
Other deaths in service (theater) 2,830
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 17,730
Nonmortal woundings 103,284
Living veterans (69)3 2,976,446
Vietnam War (1964?1975)
Total servicemembers 9,200,000
Deployed to Southeast Asia 3,100,000
Battle deaths 47,410
Other deaths in service (theater) 10,788
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 32,000
Nonmortal woundings 153,303
Living veterans (55)3 7,495,029
Gulf War (1990?1991)
Total servicemembers 2,322,332
Deployed to Gulf 1,136,658
Battle deaths 148
Other deaths in service (theater) 235
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 914
Nonmortal woundings 467
Living veterans (35)3 1,753,530
America's Wars Total
Military service during war 42,348,460
Battle deaths 650,954
Other deaths in service (theater) 13,853
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 229,661
Nonmortal woundings 1,431,290
Living war veterans 18,865,926
Living veterans 25,038,459</blockquote>The rate of death for all American-involved battles is 0.01537%. That's not too bad of a percent when you look at what all has been accomplished thoughout American history.