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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Has anyone looked at the number of severely maimed people (who would almost certainly have died if they had sustained such injuries in Vietnam/WWII etc.)?
I don't really see any parallels to our involvement in WWII in this. We are an invading country, not a defending country, and there was no war in Iraq before we opted to invade. By the time we entered WWII, a bunch of countries had been taken over/were in the process of being taken over and there was full mobilization of a significant number of peer countries (developed world), if not nearly all of them.
I'm really curious how the death counts would compare if we had the same kind of medical care now that we had when we were in Vietnam.
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This shows a lot, but not severity of wounds.
I agree that it's not comparable. Also, I think we were ready to take more risks and sacrifice more people in World War II - which has a lot to do with what tactics the army is willing to take.
