January Deaths
I neglected to update the my graphs for US military deaths in Iraq for the month of January; here they are now. I bet there are a few soldiers who wish it was as easy for them to forget these numbers.
Again, I’m getting these figures from the advanced search tool at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund site, and from Lunaville’s page on Iraq coalition casualties. The figures are for the number of US dead per month, without regard to whether the deaths were combat-related.
The first graph shows the first 23 months of each war. (Click on any image for a larger version.)
Next, the same chart, with the Vietnam numbers extended out to cover the first four years of the war:
Finally, the chart that gives the US death toll for the entire Vietnam war:
Disclaimer: I’m aware that we have more troops in-theater in Iraq than we had during the corresponding parts of the Vietnam War graph. Vietnam didn’t get numbers of US troops comparable to the number currently in Iraq until shortly after Johnson won the 1964 election, some three-and-a-half years after the starting point of the Vietnam graphs above.
These graphs are not intended to show the relative lethality of the two conflicts on a per-soldier basis. I was just curious how the “death profile” of the two wars compared, and these graphs let me see that. You are free to draw your own conclusions.
February 18th, 2005 at 9:04 am
Oh right, and Clinton jwas under his desk. You are free to draw your own conclusions.
February 18th, 2005 at 11:43 am
huh?
February 18th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
I also fail to see the relevance of Patriot’s comment.