Why is the Iraq war worse than the Vietnam war? More troops killed in Iraq in 3 years than Vietnam 1st 3 years

Question

Casualties By Year -1961-1965 for Vietnam.


U.S. Military Killed in Action in 4 years for Vietnam:... US Forces 1,864
For Iraq:....2,500 Killed in Action in 3 years.

Answer 1

You don't get much through your head do you?

Total losses in Vietnam: 58,193 I got this from the book "The Top Ten of Everything 2003" I highly doubt the number has changed since then.

Answer 2

Casualties in the early years of Vietnam were relatively low because most of the fighting at that time was against South Vietnamese insurgents. After the Tet Offensive, the regular North Vietnamese Army started doing more and more of the fighting, which led to increased casualties for the U.S. If you divide 57,700 Americans who died by 15 (the number of years from 1961-1975), you get an average of 3,847 per year, which is more than we've suffered in Iraq since the beginning of the war.

Answer 3

I must apologize because I am going to be a little personal in my answer. You are just pathetic. It has been said that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". You epitomize that adage. Sadly, you are not atypical of a lot of people in these troubled times. Liberal and conservative are equally guilty. You have, as is often done by people unable to think for themselves, taken an obscure (and incomplete) statistic out of context to attempt to prove a point. Alas, however, I failed to see any point in your rant.

I am retired military. I served four tours in Southeast Asia. In retrospect, and since I learned to think for myself, I question why we were ever involved in that fiasco. But, for you to attempt to draw similarities between Viet Nam and Iraq is at best unscholarly and at worst just silly. You might want to try reading, something... anything. And think about what you read, it appears that might be a new experience for you.

And to the person above that opined that the Iraq war is more violent than Viet Nam, I would inquire just what years did you serve in either theater, or are you just a seer?

Answer 4

The Iraq war has far more violence than the Vietnam war and a less likely chance of ending well.

Answer 5

you are comparing apples to oranges.in Vietnam we did not have a full military involvement in the beginning of that war. we strated by putting in troops to lead the south Vietnamese against the north. we had a very slow build up of troops in Vietnam.

Answer 6

Yea, nice statistics. Now here's one for you; more people are killed on US highways than have been killed in Iraq the entire we've been there. Do you want us to stay off the highways because we'll all die? If the media had this kind of coverage on the world wars, the American people wouldn't have wanted us in them either.

Answer 7

we didnt have alot of people in nam the first few years. mostly cia and special forces advisors. it wasnt until johnson took over and we had the troop esculation that the numbers went up. we probably got more troops in iraq now then we did in the first four years in vietnam put together.

Answer 8

We had less than 25,000 men in vietnam at that time however, because we were only there as military advisors. In Iraq, we have more than 100,000 men.

Answer 9

I believe it was a bit more in Vietnam. We are fighting a different type of foe in Iraq.

Answer 10

Both of the wars you mentioned are bad, many men died in both and many more will die to come. All we can do is learn by our mistakes as the years goes by and support our military.