According to an article in Forbes, the Russian Army has had 2,000 soldiers killed and 3,200 disabled as a result of fighting in the Ukraine. - (H/T)
Outside of the failure of the Russians to keep the numbers secret (which they have tried to do), notice the ratio of invalids to killed: 1.6 to 1.
Direct comparisons may be hard to make, because it's not known how the Russians classify a casualty as an invalid.
But the Iraq and Afghan wars have claimed over 6,800 servicemen and women. The DoD claims over 35,000 were wounded. Almost a million have registered disability claims with the VA. That's out of a total of 2.5 million who served. Keep in mind that some of them made multiple deployments, as many as five times, which was almost unheard-of during Vietnam.
Chances also are that the VA will pay benefits when the Russian analogue will say "walk it off, tovarisch."
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That's why they still use conscripts... Cannon fodder...
ReplyDeleteWe used "conscripts" during Vietnam. One of the reasons that people didn't deploy that often. Of course that's what gave the draft a bad name...
ReplyDeleteWe also used "conscripts" to fight WWII. Pretty important that we won that one. At least from my point of view.
As far as I can tell, the Brits still have a draft available to them. The IDF is currently in the process of revoking "conscientious objector status" from a whole section of the conservative community - to basically expand the draft. Not so sure about the rest of Europe, but the Swiss take service seriously. (I think, similar to the IDF, everyone - men anyway - serve 2 years and are then in the militia. Which is why as a country Switzerland is so heavily armed. Most homes include at least one fully-automatic battle rifle.)
I wonder how the oligarch-funded Nazi Azov and other Ukrainian militias treat their wounded?
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