ORAC
21st Aug 2009, 11:23
Excellent article in this week's Spectator.
The terrible price that is paid by the forgotten casualties of war (http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/5275928/the-terrible-price-that-is-paid-by-the-forgotten-casualties-of-war.thtml)
............. the true story is that the war in Afghanistan is taking a far, far greater toll than most people realise. A much more telling statistic than the number of dead is the number of wounded. Even more important than this is the number of severely wounded men and women and the startling ratio of wounded to dead. In the second world war the ratio of dead to wounded was 1:4. During the Vietnam war there were 15 wounded men for every American fatality in theatre. In Afghanistan and Iraq the ratio for British and American troops is between 1:30 and 1:40...........
The terrible price that is paid by the forgotten casualties of war (http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/5275928/the-terrible-price-that-is-paid-by-the-forgotten-casualties-of-war.thtml)
............. the true story is that the war in Afghanistan is taking a far, far greater toll than most people realise. A much more telling statistic than the number of dead is the number of wounded. Even more important than this is the number of severely wounded men and women and the startling ratio of wounded to dead. In the second world war the ratio of dead to wounded was 1:4. During the Vietnam war there were 15 wounded men for every American fatality in theatre. In Afghanistan and Iraq the ratio for British and American troops is between 1:30 and 1:40...........