These advances, combined with enhanced protective gear, helped produce the highest U.S. combat survival rates in history: Today less than 10 percent of combat casualties die from their wounds, compared with 19 percent in World War II and 16 percent in Vietnam. (discovermagazine.com)
By analyzing over 500,000 American combat casualties from World War II through Iraq and Afghanistan, University of Minnesota Law Professor Francis Shen and Boston University Political Scientist Douglas Kriner found growing socioeconomic inequality in military sacrifice. (sciencedaily.com)
Today less than 10 % of combat casualties dies from their wounds, compared with 19 % in World War II and 16 % in Vietnam. (discovermagazine.com)