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Among other things, they cast new light on the scale of civilian casualties in the Iraq war, and they document the horrific details of many particular lethal incidents. (fas.org)

METHODS: This study was conducted in the pediatric department of Maiwand Teaching Hospital (MTH) in 2020 as a descriptive cross-sectional study. (bvsalud.org)
All children who were admitted to the pediatric department of Maiwand Teaching Hospital during 2020 were included in the research. (bvsalud.org)
The study included children over the age of 28 days who were admitted to the Maiwand Teaching Hospital pediatrics department in 2020. (bvsalud.org)

Information provided includes serial number, rank and type of casualty. (accessgenealogy.com)

The CBO estimate is naïve and unrealistic when you consider the kind of war we are preparing to enter - an open-ended war of regime-change and occupation and empire building that may involve heavy casualties in an urban setting such as Baghdad. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
The New York Times reported the following day , on July 26, that the Taliban have been "scoring early gains in several strategic areas near the capital this summer, inflicting heavy casualties and casting new doubt on the ability of Afghan forces to contain the insurgency as the United States moves to complete its withdrawal of combat troops, according to Afghan officials and local elders. (longwarjournal.org)

they include in their listing of military war dead personnel outside of combat theaters and civilians recruited from Africa, the Middle East and China who provided logistical and service support in combat theaters. (wikipedia.org)
According to the 1914-1918 Online Encyclopedia "In addition to losses suffered by African military personnel and the laborers supporting their operations, very large, but unknown numbers of African civilians perished during the war. (wikipedia.org)
A compilation and comparison of such estimates has been prepared by the Congressional Research Service in "Iraq Casualties: U.S. Military Forces and Iraqi Civilians, Police, and Security Forces" (pdf), updated October 7, 2010. (fas.org)
Another CRS report addresses "Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians" (pdf), updated September 14, 2010. (fas.org)
Crimean civilians and the Crimean War," an article solicited for The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War. (southalabama.edu)
That includes even the mass manslaughter and beyond of innocent civilians so-called by accident - as if war is usually accidental. (thedailyguardian.com)
But many of these murderous wars and certainly, terror in all forms should be called out as crimes against humanity where civilians are killed in at least serious numbers. (thedailyguardian.com)
All of this reminds one that more action is required to protect the increasingly fragile state civilians are facing in war and in terror. (thedailyguardian.com)
Nor can terrorist groups be allowed to embed themselves among civilians and think by doing so they will not be tracked down for war crimes somewhere where these terrorists might be sickly called freedom fighters. (thedailyguardian.com)
Afghan civilian casualties: According to the United Nations, 11,864 civilians were killed in the conflict between 2007, when the U.N. began reporting statistics, and the end of 2011. (ktar.com)
We can see it all too clearly in Ukraine--in the destruction of cities, in civilians fleeing their homes, and in the heart-wrenching casualties. (commondreams.org)

Disability compensation payments to Gulf War veterans - excluding any Gulf War veterans who also served in Vietnam - amounted to $1.8 billion last year, according to a recent report on the Department of Veterans Affairs web site. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
Funding for the country's colossal war machine actually includes $220 billion for Veterans Affairs, which finances the care of the soldiers injured or damaged in America's endless wars, and the benefits programs used to entice young people into enlisting in the armed forces. (thiscantbehappening.net)
Veterans, Congress, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) all have been deeply concerned about the etiology of the symptoms that were so prevalent among Gulf War veterans. (cdc.gov)
A major focus of the mission of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to respond to the needs of military personnel returning from war. (cdc.gov)

CBO states up front: "CBO has no basis for estimating the number of casualties from the conflict," therefore, any discussion of casualties was simply excluded. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
It's all of no benefit to anyone, including us folks here in the United States, who end up footing the staggering annual bill for all this warmongering and bullying, which always or course has the potential of blowing up into a hot war or even a humanity-ending nuclear conflict. (thiscantbehappening.net)
In the years leading up to the Civil War, a bloody conflict between slaveholders and abolitionists focused the nation's eyes on the state of Missouri and the territory of Kansas. (americancivilwar.com)
Relive the most vicious fighting of the Civil War, in which General Ulysses S. Grant forcibly reversed the tide of the conflict by paying with the blood of thousands. (americancivilwar.com)
I analyze the newly discovered skeletal remains of Canadian service personnel who were killed in action during the First and Second World Wars, as well as the conflict in Korea, and who have no known grave. (canada.ca)
The first is the risk that a "clever briefer" - a convincing salesman for "limited" nuclear war - will persuade a president that fighting and winning such a conflict is possible. (consortiumnews.com)
Casualties of Conflict: Crimean Tatars during the Crimean War," Slavic Review 67.4 (2008): 862-891. (southalabama.edu)
The 1973 conflict marked one of the most significant intelligence failures in Israel's history, with critical information failing to reach Meir and other decision-makers in time due apparently to haughtiness and hubris following the IDF's resounding victory six years prior in the 1967 Six Day War. (timesofisrael.com)
American deaths in the Iraq war reached the sobering milestone of 3,000 on Sunday even as the Bush administration sought to overhaul its strategy for an unpopular conflict that shows little sign of abating. (capitolhillblue.com)
There were 58,000 Americans killed in the Vietnam War, 36,000 in the Korean conflict, 405,000 in World War II and 116,000 in World War I, according to Defense Department figures. (capitolhillblue.com)
Afghanistan has been in an active state of conflict and war for twenty continuous years. (bvsalud.org)

This collection lists War Department casualties (Army and Army Air Force personnel) from World War II. (accessgenealogy.com)
This series contains information about U.S. Army officers and soldiers who were casualties in the Korean War during the period of 2/13/1950 through 12/31/1953. (archives.gov)
When the war began, there were 113 surgeons in the U.S. Army, of which 24 joined the Confederate army and 3 were dismissed for disloyalty. (historynet.com)

This reference report provides an overview of the electronic data records in the custody of the National Archives that relate to U.S. military casualties, missing in action, and prisoners of war from the Korean War era. (archives.gov)
This series contains information about 4,447 former prisoners of war from the Korean War. (archives.gov)
This series has records for 4,714 U.S. military officers and soldiers who were prisoners of war during the Korean War and therefore considered casualties. (archives.gov)
Surviving prisoners of war were exchanged at "Big Switch-Little Switch" towards the end of the Korean War. (archives.gov)
This file contains records of U.S. military officers and soldiers who died as a result of either a hostile or non-hostile occurrence or who were missing in action or prisoners of war in the Korean War. (archives.gov)
It is the successor to the series "Records of Military Personnel Who Died as a Result of Hostilities During the Korean War. (archives.gov)
These include the records of persons who were missing in action or prisoners of war in either the Korean War or the Vietnam War. (archives.gov)
This series contains selected descriptive data about U.S. military personnel who died by hostile means (i.e. battle deaths) as a result of combat duty in the Korean War. (archives.gov)
These figures steadily decreased to 0.7% during World War II, 0.2% during the Korean War, and 0.002% during the Vietnam War. (medscape.com)

The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. (wikipedia.org)
About two-thirds of military deaths in World War I were in battle, unlike the conflicts that took place in the 19th century when the majority of deaths were due to disease. (wikipedia.org)
Nevertheless, disease, including the 1918 flu pandemic and deaths while held as prisoners of war, still caused about one third of total military deaths for all belligerents. (wikipedia.org)
Military casualties reported in official sources list deaths due to all causes, including an estimated 7 to 8 million combat related deaths (killed or died of wounds) and another two to three million military deaths caused by accidents, disease and deaths while prisoners of war. (wikipedia.org)
First World War civilian deaths are "hazardous to estimate" according to Micheal Clodfelter who maintains that "the generally accepted figure of noncombatant deaths is 6.5 million. (wikipedia.org)
when the number of deaths in a country is disputed, a range of war losses is given) (sources and details of figures are provided in the footnotes) The source of population data is: Haythornthwaite, Philip J., The World War One Source Book pp. 382-383 The war involved multi-ethnic empires such as Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Turkey. (wikipedia.org)
The records "contain 15,000 civilian deaths that have not been previously reported," said the non-governmental organization Iraq Body Count , which is one of several organizations that attempt to tally or estimate civilian casualties in Iraq. (fas.org)
Prior to the Wikileaks release, with its description of 66,081 civilian casualties, the Iraq Body Count organization had estimated between 98,585 and 107,594 civilian deaths. (fas.org)
The death of a Texas soldier, announced Sunday by the Pentagon, raised the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to at least 3,000, according to an Associated Press count, since the war began in March 2003. (capitolhillblue.com)
Three thousand deaths are tiny compared with casualties in other protracted wars America has fought in the last century. (capitolhillblue.com)
If there was a large-scale nuclear war between Russia and the United States, God forbid, that could kill 200 million people in the immediate near-term and the possibility of leading to a nuclear winter, with the possibility of the deaths of 5 or 6 billion people. (medscape.com)

This report does not directly reflect the new Wikileaks disclosures or a Defense Department tally made public last summer, though it presents official estimates based on some of the same underlying data. (fas.org)
The Defense Department issues brief statements identifying each service member killed in the wars, but it doesn't for the wounded. (oregonlive.com)
According to the Defense Department, 15,786 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action. (ktar.com)

A war in Iraq, fought in urban environments to throw out an entrenched government against soldiers defending their home towns, will certainly result in similar casualties, and quite likely much higher. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
Thousands of previously unrecognized civilian casualties of the war in Iraq were documented in a collection of classified U.S. military records that were published online October 22 by the Wikileaks organization. (fas.org)
The newly disclosed records are said to be "the first real glimpse into the secret history of the [Iraq] war," as if there had been no declassification, no previous unauthorized disclosures of classified information, and no prior reporting on the subject in the last seven years. (fas.org)
But setting aside the hyperbole, it seems clear that the documents significantly enrich the public record on the Iraq war, as reported over the weekend by the New York Times , the Guardian , Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera , and others. (fas.org)
Number of American service members who have died in the war in Iraq, according to The Associated Press. (michigandaily.com)
For the last couple of years, the tactic of war proponents was to simply deny reality and pretend that the disaster in Iraq was just fiction, nothing more than the invention of an American-hating media. (blogspot.com)
In its casualty statistics, it says 46,288 U.S. service members had been wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. (oregonlive.com)
And the UK has been found by UN courts as woefully in derelict of duty in following up on those of its soldiers charged with war crimes connected to Iraq. (thedailyguardian.com)
At the start of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Bush asserted that America doesn't need a permission slipto wage war. (countercurrents.org)
This investigation comes to the conclusion that the war has, directly or indirectly, killed around 1 million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan, i.e., a total of around 1.3 million. (countercurrents.org)

This book follows them through the Civil War and uses diaries, letters, and memoirs to allow the soldiers to tell their own story. (americancivilwar.com)
World War I presented a new kind of threat to soldiers - chemical warfare gases, such as chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas. (cdc.gov)
This is in order to enable the general public and the soldiers of the war and their families, to understand clearly what really happened in the Yom Kippur War," the center said. (timesofisrael.com)
Despite numerous casualties caused by enormous firepower and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), no cases of gas gangrene were reported among US soldiers during the ongoing operation Iraqi Freedom. (medscape.com)

Then tack on another $6 to $9 billion every month to conduct the war well into the future, and watch the money pour down the sewers, filling the cups of the waiting defense contactors like Halliburton, which already made a bonanza off Afghanistan. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
Sarah Gregory] During the recent war in Afghanistan, invasive fungal wound infections, or IFIs, among U.S. combat casualties were associated with risk factors related to the mechanism and pattern of injury. (cdc.gov)
So, Southern Afghanistan is notably warmer and it became termed, during the period of the war, as the "green zone" and this area is notable for large agricultural areas, several rivers and waterways, which many of those may be irrigation areas in these agricultural sites, and so this provided a very favorable environment for the mold growth. (cdc.gov)

Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia AWMM XI. (aucklandmuseum.com)

During the course of the war, formal and informal surgical training programs were begun for newly enlisted surgeons, and special courses on treating gunshot wounds were given. (historynet.com)
Because of medical advances and improved military capabilities, troops today can survive wounds that would have killed their predecessors in earlier wars. (oregonlive.com)
During World War I, gas gangrene complicated 6% of open fractures and 1% of all open wounds. (medscape.com)
The lethality of war wounds has decreased from 24% during operation Desert Storm (1991) to an unprecedented 10% during operation Iraqi Freedom. (medscape.com)
ABSTRACT In this paper, recent concepts in the management of war wounds of the maxillofacial reg gion are described. (who.int)
Wounds of war gent veloped. (who.int)
War wounds of the maxillofacial ret from the front to the rear hospitals. (who.int)
battalions the casualties suffer mainly from The aim of this work was to describe missile and blast injuries, so the number of recent concepts in managing war wounds of casualties can be precalculated according to the maxillofacial region under severe comt the type and severity of the battle. (who.int)

This regiment fought in Virginia during the entire Civil War, since New Orleans was captured so early in the war and the 6th Louisiana virtually became orphans in regards to State support. (americancivilwar.com)

Theodore J. Hull, " Electronic Records of Korean and Vietnam War Casualties ," Prologue (Spring 2000). (archives.gov)
In less than three months, more Americans have died from coronavirus than the number of US service members killed in the Vietnam War, according to updated numbers from Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday afternoon. (cnn.com)
The American death toll in the Vietnam War was 58,220, with the fighting stretching out for more than 10 years. (cnn.com)

This report "presents difficult-to-find statistics regarding U.S military casualties… including those concerning post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, amputations, evacuations, and the demographics of casualties. (fas.org)

1947. Medical report of the Bari Harbor mustard casualties. (cdc.gov)

A companion report from the CRS considers "U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom" (pdf), updated September 28, 2010. (fas.org)
The finger-pointing began this weekend when Bill Kristol, unquestionably one of the most influential war proponents most responsible for our invasion, essentially acknowledged that his Iraqi project was failing by blaming the military for failing to fight the war hard enough. (blogspot.com)
Air attacks against Iraqi forces began on January 2, 1991, and the ground war followed between February 24 and 28. (cdc.gov)

With the fall of the critical city of New Orleans in spring 1862 the South lost the Civil War, although fighting would continue for three more years. (americancivilwar.com)
After treating casualties of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, Maryland, Keen went to work in Philadelphia at the Turner's Lane Hospital, a facility famous for making discoveries about nerve injuries. (historynet.com)

In a surprisingly rosy cost estimate of something which can't be accurately estimated, the Congressional Budget Office Monday released an analysis of what Gulf War II might cost in real dollars paid by U.S. taxpayers. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
Remember, CBO neglected to estimate the financial cost of casualties. (veteransforcommonsense.org)

What are people asking on History Hub about World War II records? (archives.gov)
Combat equipment did not include respirators until World War II (Caretti, 2018). (cdc.gov)
Japanese rule ends in 1945, when U.S. and Russian forces capture the peninsula at the conclusion of World War II. (kqed.org)
At the end of World War II, Japan surrenders to the Allies and relinquishes its control of Korea. (kqed.org)

The Department of Defense provides the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security. (defense.gov)
Then there are the hundreds of billions of dollars more for funding Homeland Security, which is part of the military, for the 17 intelligence agencies, which is basically all military spending, and for the repayment of debt used to finance America's wars. (thiscantbehappening.net)
In all, according to a study by the Brown University Watson Institute's study "Costs of War," it's $1.3 trillion a year that gets spent on the US military, an amount almost equal to the $1.7 trillion in federal income taxes collected tht year. (thiscantbehappening.net)
That includes funding a huge 2.2 million military standing force of men and women in uniform and another 700,000 civilian employees, all busy maintaining over 800 bases overseas, fighting undeclared wars in seven or eight countries, staffing the huge Pentagon bureaucracy and all the while threatening war against Russia, China, Iran and other countries by arms build-ups along their borders. (thiscantbehappening.net)
From the standpoint of many Pentagon planners, greater war-fighting capabilities are always better because they increase U.S. military options. (consortiumnews.com)
But escalating military tension between NATO and Russia has prompted some experts, like former Defense Secretary William Perry, to warn that the world is closer to a " nuclear catastrophe " than at any time during the Cold War. (consortiumnews.com)
This site is unabashedly Pro-American and Pro-Military however none of the views expressed here are to be considered as endorsed, proposed, or supported by the Department of Defense or any other Agency, government, public, or private. (typepad.com)
Prime Minister Golda Meir expressed grave concerns to military officials in the early days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War about the potential lack of help from an international community she viewed as unsympathetic toward Jews, newly released documents show. (timesofisrael.com)
The situation is unsympathetic on both fronts," military officers told Meir during one such meeting on the morning of October 7, the second day of the war, according to the newly published transcripts. (timesofisrael.com)
Number of U.S. casualties: At least 1,828 members of the U.S. military killed as of Tuesday, according to an Associated Press count. (ktar.com)
This study will primarily examine military actions in the context of the other aspects, such as the political, legal, and interagency aspects influencing the war, which are well-documented elsewhere many times over. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Juxtaposed with this internal crisis was a series of seemingly reluctant, casualty-adverse foreign military interventions. (smallwarsjournal.com)
[ii] Following the spectacular military success of the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91, these interventions ended badly, inconclusively, or developed into protracted conflicts. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Civilian doctors may not be aware of the tiation between general practice medicine diagnosis or treatment of some of the injut and military medicine in casualties that may ries which occur during modern warfare. (who.int)

These secondary sources published during the 1920s, are the source of the statistics in reference works listing casualties in World War I. This article summarizes the casualty statistics published in the official government reports of the United States and Great Britain as well as France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia. (wikipedia.org)
The casualty figures by 1924 post war borders are rough estimates by Russian historian Vadim Erlikman in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century, the sources of his figures were published in the Soviet era and in post-Soviet Russia. (wikipedia.org)
Official Washington's anti-Russian hysteria has distorted U.S. politics while also escalating risks of a nuclear war as U.S. war planners dream of "winning" a first-strike attack on Russia, reports Jonathan Marshall. (consortiumnews.com)
Sermons of the Crimean War" (Introduction to and translation of) in Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia: A Sourcebook on Lived Religion. (southalabama.edu)
I wager lots of folks in the media and the upper echelons of government bureaucracy are swooning with delight over the Big Guy's swagger, his willingness to throw caution to the wind and risk all-out war with Syria's most powerful ally - Russia. (countercurrents.org)
Although it began as a popular uprising against authoritarian rule, it has since mutated into several proxy wars involving Russia, the United States, and several other regional actors. (commondreams.org)

Now, the outbreak of war between Israel and the Palestinians after a devastating Hamas attack on Israeli soil is threatening to delay or derail the yearslong, country-by-country diplomatic push by the United States to improve relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. (wtnh.com)
In this file photo taken on October 6, 1973, Israeli troops cross the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War. (timesofisrael.com)
This is evident in the over 50-year Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, as well as the war in Yemen. (commondreams.org)

The United Nations and Coalition forces have effectively highlighted the Taliban's role in causing most of the civilian casualties in the ongoing war. (longwarjournal.org)

Chaos, battles, combat and death are the fundamental ingredients of war. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
These infections develop after a traumatic penetrating injury and, in this case, with combat casualties, this is usually an explosive blast injury. (cdc.gov)
Seventy-five percent of combat casualties in the current conflicts are due to explosive mechanisms of injury, primarily improvised explosive devices (1). (cdc.gov)

Captain Sye VanMaanen, Padre, leads the burial party from The British Columbia Regiment on June 12, 2019 during the burial ceremony of First World War fallen soldier, Private George Alfred Newburn at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Loos British Cemetery outside Loos-en-Gohelle, France. (canada.ca)
The Casualty Identification Program aims to identify the remains of more than 27,000 Canadian war dead so that they may be buried with their name, by their regiment, and in the presence of family. (canada.ca)

Qualifying businesses, such as bars and restaurants, recreational facilities, health clubs and athletic facilities, cosmetologists, salons, barber shops, tattoo studios, tanning and massage facilities, will be asked to adhere to guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and recommendation from the North Dakota Department of Health. (cnn.com)
And the Taliban's "Department of Prevention of Civilian Casualties should seriously pay attention to its task to prevent civilian casualties. (longwarjournal.org)
A group has come together, which is the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). (medscape.com)

and, rehajt casualties suffer from burns and fractures bilitation, aimed at compensating for functt as well as concussions, while in the infantry tional damage and aesthetic defects [ 2 ]. (who.int)

Throw in a battlefield already contaminated with 300 tons of cancer-causing depleted uranium radioactive dust from Gulf War I, and the potential for high casualties and financial disaster is clear. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
While at CDC, Bill has taught First Responder, Mass Casualty Management, Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support, disaster planning and all-hazards preparedness in 12 countries and numerous domestic areas. (cdc.gov)

In 1961, senior Pentagon consultants drafted a 33-page blueprint for initiating - and winning - a nuclear war against the Soviet Union. (consortiumnews.com)
Convinced of U.S. superiority, the Joint Chiefs of Staff began advising President John F. Kennedy to risk nuclear war over Cuba and Vietnam - even though their own analysis conceded that if something went wrong, 75 percent of Americans might die. (consortiumnews.com)
I'd like to bring your attention to what I believe is an important editorial recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine , titled, " Reducing The Risk of Nuclear War-The Role of Health Professionals . (medscape.com)
I grew up as a small boy in Glasgow during the 60s at the height of the Cold War, in which nuclear war was an omnipresent threat, something that was extraordinary but hovered continually in the background. (medscape.com)
More recently, though, in January of this year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the doomsday clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, reflecting the growing risk for nuclear war. (medscape.com)
Even a limited nuclear war involving only 250 of the estimated existing 13,000 nuclear weapons stored around the globe would kill 120 million people outright, cause massive global disruption, and the possibilities of widespread global famine would probably put 2 billion people at risk. (medscape.com)
What they did in the 60s was to educate both sides - everybody who was involved in what was then a nuclear arms race - about the medical global consequences of nuclear war and played an important part through that element of health diplomacy in reducing the nuclear arms race and trying to bring in a nonproliferation treaty. (medscape.com)
Study on the climatic and other global effects of nuclear war : report of the Secretary-General. (who.int)
Environmental consequences of nuclear war. (who.int)
Psychological aspects of nuclear war : adopted as a statement by the Council of the British Psychological Society at its meeting on 13 October 1984 / James Thompson. (who.int)

Excluding the 10th Mountain and 71st Infantry (since they more or less existed as provisional formations), that frees up everybody who went into four infantry divisions, an armored division, and an airborne divisions - call it cadre and fillers for some 70,000+ billets, and another 12,000 replacements (based on the historical casualties for these six divisions). (axishistory.com)
War I. try replacements. (cdc.gov)

Three years of intense fighting result in vast physical destruction and as many as 3 million casualties, including roughly 35,000 Americans. (kqed.org)

The casualties of these support personnel recruited outside of Europe were previously not included with British war dead, however the casualties of the Labour Corps recruited from the British Isles were included in the rolls of British war dead published in 1921. (wikipedia.org)

According to VFW Magazine (January 2001), most of the 1991 Gulf War Killed-in-Action occurred in just a few incidents. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
Preparedness for the evaluation and management of mass casualty incidents involving anticholinesterase compounds: a survey of emergency department directors in the 12 largest cities in the United States. (msdmanuals.com)

In his Reminiscences (1905), he commented on the persistent practice of blaming Civil War surgeons for performing unnecessary amputations. (historynet.com)
Many other Civil War surgeons made the same point: amputations saved lives and failure to perform necessary ones sometimes resulted in fatal infections The image that surgery during the Civil War consisted of amputations, amputations, and more amputations, many done unnecessarily, developed early in the war. (historynet.com)

This project currently contains records for over one million men and women who died whilst serving in the First World War, with over 600,000 locations worldwide, tens of thousands of images, cemeteries, war memorials and much more. (astreetnearyou.org)
As a result, chemical warfare in WWI accounted for 1.3 million casualties and approximately 90,000 fatalities. (cdc.gov)

The Federals captured nine forts and 41 heavy guns and occupied a base which they would hold to the end of the war, in spite of several Confederate attempts to recover the town. (civilwaracademy.com)

An introduction explaining how the list was compiled, a statistical tabulation, and the descriptions of the types of casualties incurred are also included. (archives.gov)

The financial toll from the 1991 Gulf War continues. (veteransforcommonsense.org)

These casualties were taken under near ideal circumstances: open terrain, fighting against a demoralized enemy, tactical surprise on most of the battlefield, and no urban fighting, with the exception of Khafji, where we took heavy losses. (veteransforcommonsense.org)

What the report tells us is that if the U.S. uses an arbitrary size force a fraction the size of that deployed for Gulf War I, then Gulf War II might cost somewhere between $9 and $13 billion to simply transport our troops and equipment to the region. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
Though U.S.-led coalition forces remained the target of the majority of attacks, the overwhelming majority of casualties were suffered by Iraqis, the report said. (capitolhillblue.com)

More than a decade has passed since the Gulf War. (cdc.gov)
Our committee was charged in the second study to review the literature on the long-term human health effects of insecticides and solvents thought to have been used in the Gulf War. (cdc.gov)
The task of this committee was to identify for review the literature that focused on the insecticides and solvents to which Gulf War veterans may have been exposed. (cdc.gov)
DOD, VA, RAND researchers, and Gulf War veterans provided information about the agents used. (cdc.gov)
when available, studies of Gulf War veterans were included in the committee's analysis. (cdc.gov)
Similar categories were used in Volume 1 of Gulf War and Health and in numerous other IOM studies. (cdc.gov)

Finally forced to accept the reality of their failure, war proponents have only two choices left: (a) admit their error and accept personal responsibility for their horrendous lack of judgment and foresight, or (b) blame others for their failure while insisting, in the face of a tidal wave of evidence, that they were right all along. (blogspot.com)
We know that the health community played a decisive element during the Cold War, and more recently, were important proponents of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (medscape.com)

Top IDF officers look at a map during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. (timesofisrael.com)

He is one of the casualties of war not routinely written about: Those with crippling injuries and the long, lonely months spent trying to recover the ability to walk, hear and think. (oregonlive.com)

Official government reports listing casualty statistics were published by the United States and Great Britain. (wikipedia.org)
While some of these statistics are publicly available through the Department of Defense website, others were obtained by CRS research. (fas.org)

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