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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Why We Win (and Don't Die Too Much)

Strategypage has an excellent summary of why our troops are doing so much better (in terms of suffering a third the casualty rate) in Iraq and Afghanistan compared to Vietnam and World War II:

One of the more amazing, and underreported, aspects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, are the dramatically lower casualties compared to Vietnam, and previous 20th century wars. The casualty rate (adjusting for the number of troops involved) in Iraq was a third of what it was in Vietnam. It's even lower in Afghanistan.


Read it all, as they say, and impress your friends and neighbors (who don't have a clue) with your knowledge.