Action Quote by Arthur L. Herman

“From 2002 to 2008, the United States was fighting bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; among active military personnel, there were an average 1,643…

— Steven D. Levitt

“Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German Nazism, Italian…

— Oliver Stone

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world -…

— Al Lewis

I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those…

— Bill Hicks

American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed…

— Colin Ward

“In the first half of 1944, battle casualty rates for every 1,000 bomber crewmen serving six months in combat included 712 killed or missing…

— Rick Atkinson

“The casualties at Antietam numbered four times the total suffered by American soldiers at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. More than twice…

— James M. McPherson

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio…

— Anonymous

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many…

— Rick Atkinson

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have…

— Ike Skelton

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

— Alphonse Allais

“over the next thirty years. After World War II, the highest maximum rates reached 70–91 percent. Were”

— Bruce Cannon Gibney