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From: pur-ee!muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Where do the most casualties occur ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.001832.6051@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 00:18:32 GMT
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From: pur-ee!muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
In article <1991Jan16.012141.8051@cbnews.att.com> military-request@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) writes:
|From: military-request@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
|In article <1991Jan15.021152.22475@cbnews.att.com> pur-ee!muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah) writes:
|>
|>In any war event, when does most of the casualties to the combatants occur ?
|>[Air raids ? ground assaults ?  etc]
|As today's replies show (and tomorrow's will no doubt continue to show)
|this question doesn't lend itself to a pat answer.  It's too loosely
|worded.
|Readers will interpret this in different ways, based on their own
|knowledge and experience.  For instance, I would first say "artillery
|inflicts the most casualties," but that presumes an active battlefield.

When the battle has all ended and when casualty counts are made the
question can surely be asked where did the most casualties occur ?
In another cut, it may also be asked how many of casualties actually
occured in battles as opposed to mines, sniper fire and the like.