Talk:United Kingdom casualties of war

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Northern Ireland[edit]

Military + Civilian figures don't add up to the total. 194.80.106.135 16:12, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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"War on Terror" figures[edit]

Where do the figures for the so-called "War on Terror" come from? The footnote references do not seem to be relevant.

Jim Whitaker (talk) 10:13, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. "War on Terror" is not an accepted "war", anymore than the "War on drugs" or the "War on poverty" is. While truly a critical struggle, it does not belong on this page as right or wrong it is a political catch phrase. As a result, I have removed the reference.Tgm1024 (talk) 14:43, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Part of the problem: "Casualties" includes wounded.[edit]

"Casualties" does not mean dead-only. It includes wounded, even in military contexts.

This is so commonly misunderstood. "Common usage" has not caught up with the stats. When looking around various war statistic sites, some stats (tacitly) do imply that casualties are death only. Others include wounded.

The Oxford English dictionary definition of "casualties" is listed as:

A person killed or injured in a war or accident

1.1 A person or thing badly affected by an event or situation.
1.2 British The department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.
1.3 (chiefly in insurance) an accident or disaster.

This is true among other dictionaries as well. Further, The American Heritage Dictionary makes this strong comment at the end of their usage note:

Sometimes, however, people use casualties to refer only to individuals who have died, not to those who have been injured. This usage is often considered an error. In our 2013 survey, 60 percent of the Usage Panel disapproved of a sentence where casualties was used to mean "fatalities" only: Officials have reported 21 casualties from yesterday's earthquake. In addition to those fatalities, 79 people were seriously injured.

We must be careful when sourcing these things, because the specific meanings might be hidden.Tgm1024 (talk) 14:37, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Liberation of Kuwait[edit]

Where are the figures for this please.46.7.195.132 (talk) 14:27, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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