American Casualties of War

Read this: 'Challenges remain in Iraq, where sectarian violence threatens the fragile government and the U.S. death toll has topped 2,300.' [CNN]

Which got me to wonder what the number of casualties of other wars is in comparison:

War	Casualties	KIA
Revolutionary War	10,623	4,435
War of 1812	6,765	2,260
Mexican-American War	17,435	1,733
Civil War	970,227	184,594
Spanish-American War	4,108	385
World War I	320,710	53,513
World War II	1,078,162	292,131
Korean War	136,935	33,651
Vietnam War	211,471	47,369
Gulf War	760	148

I didn't realize so many people died in Vietnam. I thought 2300 was a lot. It still is too many for a war we should never have started anyway.

From RationalRevolution.com