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cyberdude611 -> RE: US Army Desertion Rates Mis-stated! (3/27/2007 3:55:20 PM)
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I'm not interested in the raw numbers...Im more interested in the percentages. 3,000 people in a 1.2 million man force is insignificant. It is 3 thousandths of 1 percent.
Just like I feel reporting the raw number of people dead in combat is anti-war propaganda. We have lost a little over 3,200 in this war and post-war insurgency period. In the terms of military history, you would be a fool to charactorize Iraq as a failure. The Russians lost 400,000 solidiers through the occupation of Berlin and east Germany AFTER the war already over. They had a hard time stopping pockets of Nazi insurgencies.
In the D-Day invasion for example, the US alone lost over 6,000 men in that single battle. The allied forces lost 12,000. Now even though we lost that many people....This battle was a major victory that changed the course of World War 2.
You cannot measure success or failure based on death count.
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