US wounded in Iraq outnumber wounded in Revolutionary War

[Rose Siding]

From the New England Journal of Medicine...

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/351/24/2471

...We have seen a similar evolution in war. Though firepower has increased, lethality has decreased. In World War II, 30 percent of the Americans injured in combat died.3 In Vietnam, the proportion dropped to 24 percent. In the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, about 10 percent of those injured have died. At least as many U.S. soldiers have been injured in combat in this war as in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, or the first five years of the Vietnam conflict, from 1961 through 1965 (see table). This can no longer be described as a small or contained conflict. But a far larger proportion of soldiers are surviving their injuries.

Table: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content-nw/full/351/24/2471/T1

*DoD currently acknowledges 10,740 wounded, while the table indicates that 10,623 were "wounded or killed in action" in the Revolutionary War
http://icasualties.org/oif/

[TomClash]

1. There are many more wounded and dead

Check the Army medical figures for "Disease."

Or the number of personnel treated at Landstuhl.

[DrWeird]

2. The enemy prefers wounded over kills.

Draws more resources.

We've taken some 20,000 casualties so far.

[eridani]

3. They are lying about the number of dead--

--http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1390.htm

U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals are not counted. They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005.

by Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter

Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The educated rumor is that the actual death toll is in excess of 7,000. Given the officially acknowledged number of over 15,000 seriously wounded, this elevated death toll is far more realistic than the current 1,400+ now being officially published.

When our research is complete, and watertight, we will publish the results along with the sources. Ed