I think we should stop fighting when the death toll reachs 867 5309 j/k
now here are some numbers to worry about:
Casualties of War - Putting American Casualties in Perspective
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- November 3, 2003
The United States of America has a somewhat unique relationship with war. While America is considered to be the most militarily powerful country in the world today, Americans as a whole have never experienced war in the way that many other countries of the world have. There is a huge disparity between the American experience of war and the global experience. This may have an impact on American attitudes towards war. Presented below are various statistics on causalities of war. The information is useful for reference material, but it is also useful for gaining an understanding of the human cost of war, and the cost of war for Americans compared to the rest of the world, which may be helpful in understanding cultural attitudes about war.
The total number of Americans killed in action from all major wars combined, the ten listed below, is 2,757,196, which, while a disheartening number, is about the same as the number of Vietnamese that died in the Vietnam War alone.
WarDuration in monthsRevolutionary War80War of 181230Mexican-American War20Civil War48Spanish-American War4World War I19World War II44Korean War37Vietnam War90Gulf War1
WarCasualtiesKIARevolutionary War10,623
4,435War of 18126,7652,260Mexican-American War17,4351,733Civil War970,227184,594Spanish-American War4,108385World War I320,71053,513World War II1,078,162292,131Korean War136,93533,651Vietnam War211,47147,369Gulf War760148
World War ICountryMilitary PersonnelMilitary DeathsMilitary CasualtiesRussia12,000,0001,700,0009,150,000Germany11,000,0001,773,7007,142,558Austria-Hungary7,800,0001,200,0007,020,000France8,410,0001,357,8006,160,800British Empire8,904,467908,3713,190,235Italy5,615,000650,0002,197,000Turkey2,850,000325,000975,000United States4,355,000126,000364,800Others4,104,343497,4441,298,293
World War II DeathsCountryMilitary Civilian Total Soviet Union13,600,0007,700,00021,300,000China1,324,00010,000,00011,324,000Germany3,250,0003,810,0007,060,000Poland850,0006,000,0006,850,000Japan1,506,000300,0001,806,000Yugoslavia300,0001,400,0001,700,000Rumania520,000465,000985,000France340,000470,000810,000Hungary??750,000Austria380,000145,000525,000Greece??520,000Italy330,00080,000410,000Czechoslovakia??400,000Great Britain326,00062,000388,000USA295,000N/A295,000Holland14,000236,000250,000Belgium10,00075,00085,000Finland79,000?79,000Canada39,000N/A39,000India36,000?36,000Australia29,000N/A29,000Spain12,00010,00022,000Bulgaria19,0002,00021,000New Zealand12,000N/A12,000South Africa9,000N/A9,000Norway5,000?5,000Denmark4,000?4,000Total23,289,00030,755,00055,714,000
(Note that Australian, British, French, Chinese, Laotian, Cambodian, and several other nationalities were involved in the Vietnam war as well, but I don't have their statistics shown here. Laos is actually the most heavily bombed country in world history, and one person is still killed by American bombs an average of every two days in Laos currently, some 25 years after the war. It is estimated that it will take another 100 years to completely rid Laos of all the unexploded American ordinance that remains in the country.)
American dead - 58,169
Vietnamese killed by American military - 1,165,000+
The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, also known as The Wall, is 493 feet long, or almost 1/10th of a mile. A Vietnamese equivalent to this memorial, including both North and South Vietnamese military and civilians who were killed by the American military, would be 9,903 feet, or almost 1.9 miles, long. This does not include disease and starvation deaths, injuries, or South Vietnamese killed by the North Vietnamese Army.
Sources:
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat2.htm
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/BACK/Casualties.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWdeaths.htm
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