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Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 1. Gulf War. E- mail This Article.

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October 2. 00. 3Appendix 2: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant. Fatalities in the 1. Gulf War. We accept 3,6.

Iraqi. civilians killed in the 1. Gulf War. Regarding military personnel, we. The estimate for civilian deaths is based on a study conducted by Beth. Osborne Daponte, a former Census Bureau analyst and currently a senior. Carnegie Mellon University (Daponte 1.

With regard. to civilian casualties directly attributable to the war, the study builds. Humans Rights Watch shortly after the. HRW 1. 99. 1). The HRW estimate of 2,5. Iraqi civilians killed.

From this source Daponte compiled a. Subsequently. she checked this on a province by province basis against the official Iraqi. Overall it appeared that. Iraqi government had undercounted the civilian death toll, although.

In some governorates (provinces), the official. Daponte added the "excess" cases. The combined total was 3,6. Turning to Iraqi military casualties in the 1. Gulf War: we conclude. These resolve into several. Estimates for the casualties imposed by coalition air power on Iraqi.

Iraqi officers, which found average unit losses of 2. Aspin and. Dickinson 1. Keaney and Eliot Cohen 1. Gordon and Trainor 1. Using 3. 60,0. 00 as a baseline for the number of Iraqi troops.

Iraqi field troops. Aspin/Dickinson. report suggests). Apart from field units, however, air power also struck at numerous other. Iraq, and command and control facilities. All told, more than. Almost one- third of these targets were airfields and these absorbed.

Also. numerous were small air defense installations. How many casualties this.

Attacks on airfields, per se. Return. visits to sites already bombed may have produced none. However, the sites. Here, we assume an average number of fatalities per target ranging between. During the war Iraq lost 4. It also lost approximately 6.

We conservatively assume that less than 1. Losses of air. defense personnel and of other air force and navy personnel at bases are. We conclude that between 8,0. Gulf War Air Power Survey concluded that. Keany. and Cohen, GWAPS, 1.

Our estimate of Iraqi casualties in the ground war comprises several. As many as 2. 50 Iraqis were killed in probing attacks and artillery exchanges.

More than 2. 00 were killed in the 2. January - 1 February "Battle of Kafji". Iraqi brigades). Between 8. Between 8. 00 and 1,0. February "highway of death".

Appendix to this report). Rumaila oilfields; and. USMC and Army XVIII and VII corps (in conjunction.

Ground operations conducted between 2. February included 8 substantial.

US coalition forces and Iraqi units of battalion- size or. Press 2. 00. 1; Biddle 1. Numerous smaller.

With regard to these battles and engagements. Iraqi personnel losses are based on data from several. Watch Bobby Deerfield Streaming.

US Army and independent. Iraqi units engaged, the extent of equipment destruction. US commanders. and Iraqi POWs recorded in US military historical documents. A careful. and detailed Army reconstruction of the Battle of 7. Easting, for instance. Iraqis had been killed in an engagement between a battalion- sized.

US unit and a brigade- sized Iraqi one (Biddle 1. Burns 1. 99. 1). Also. Iraqi forces were relatively. Some of these. artillery deaths (between 1,0. Among the estimates made above, several may be controversial. Previous. estimates of the numbers killed in the "highway of death" incident(s) outside.

Kuwait City range from 2. Our choice of 8. 00- 1. Also controversial are estimates. Iraqis buried alive by bulldozers of the US 1st. Infantry Division during breeching operations on the first day of the Gulf.

War. Previous estimates range from less than 1. By contrast. we have accepted 2. Watch His Trysting Place Streaming here. The higher end estimates for the numbers of Iraqi combatants buried. I know." The commander of the other brigade made different estimates. The division commander, Maj.

Gen. Thomas Rhames, told a press conference that as many as 4. Significantly, none of the officers interviewed seemed especially. However, a captain who ordered part of the.

Zmirak 2. 00. 2). A similarly distraught sargent. Berstein 2. 00. 1). A classified (secret) log made by division officers at the time of the.

Gordon and. Trainor 1. The log also stated that the division. British division.)Some Iraqis were able to flee the area - - a significant fact in itself. O'Kane 1. 99. 5).

One Iraqi who did retreat and witness the bulldozing from. As we will see, the. Iraqi's numerical estimate might actually have reflected the total number. Iraqi troops still alive and present in the area when the assault began.). The Iraqi also claimed that the plows cut down some troops who had exited.

As is made clear in an interview. O'Kane 1. 99. 5). High- end estimates often also make reference to the fact that the authorized. Iraqi unit under attack (the 2.

Infantry Division). Iraqis had surrendered (some from neighboring. However, few if any Iraqi units in the theater actually deployed. The average deployed strength of Iraqi ground units in the theater was.

Aspin and Dickinson 1. In some cases. desertions were as high as 5. Those personnel injured by air power comprised as much as 1.

Those Iraqi units in trench lines along the Saudi border were among. At the time of the ground. Iraqi 2. 6th division was judged by CENTCOM to have. At any rate, on the eve of the. These factors combine to make it unlikely that there were more than. Iraqi 2. 6th. Division when the breeching operation began. Subsequently, more than 5.

Some number. also escaped the area. Also, it would have been unlikely that more than. Others would have been fulfilling vital functions.

These considerations support the hypothesis. Some of these Iraqis would have been in fighting shape; others dazed. Due to. fear of chemical attack and the demanding pace of the planned offensive. US 1st Division did not make loudspeaker appeals for surrender. Low end estimates of the numbers buried alive derive from an Iraqi report. October 1. 99. 1 (AP, October.

Although this number subsequently echoed for years in the US media. PBS 1. 99. 6, Heidenrich 1.

Iraqis had. claimed to find more bodies by the end of 1. Xinhua. 1. 99. 1). Some of these probably came from other sites, however (AP.

November 1. 99. 1). The official Iraqi version today is that "hundreds" were. US 1st Division breeching operation, and. Iraqi docudrama about the event (BBC.

AFP 2. 00. 0). Most of the informed estimates of the numbers buried alive during the.

The Warrior's Code of Honor(Click the image for more detail.)By Paul R. Allen. As a combat veteran wounded in one of America’s wars, I offer to speak for those who cannot.   Were the mouths of my fallen combat friends not stopped with dust, they would testify that life revolves around honor.   In war it is understood that you give your word of honor to do your duty to stand and fight instead of running away and deserting your friends.   When you keep your word despite desperately desiring to flee the screaming hell all around, you earn honor. Earning honor under fire changes who you are.   The blast- furnace of battle burns away impurities encrusting your soul.   The white- hot forge of combat hammers you into a purified, hardened warrior willing to die rather than break your word to friends – your honor. Combat is scary but exciting. You never feel so alive as when being shot at without result.

You never feel so triumphant as when shooting back – with result. You never feel love so pure as that burned into your heart by friends willing to die to keep their word to you.

And they do. The biggest sadness of your life is to see friends falling.   The biggest surprise of your life is to survive the war.   Although still alive on the outside, you are dead inside – shot thru the heart with nonsensical guilt for living while friends died.   The biggest lie of your life torments you that you could have done something more, different, to save them.   Their faces are the tombstones in your weeping eyes, their souls shine the true camaraderie you search for the rest of your life but never find. You live a different world now.   You always will. Your world is about waking up night after night screaming, back in battle. Your world is about your best friend bleeding to death in your arms, howling in pain for you to kill him. Your world is about shooting so many enemies the gun turns red and jams, letting the enemy grab you.

Your world is about struggling hand- to- hand for one more breath of life. You never speak of your world.   Those who have seen combat do not talk about it.   Those who talk about it have not seen combat.

You come home but a grim ghost of he who so lightheartedly went off to war.   But home no longer exists.   That world shattered like a mirror the first time you were shot at.   The splintering glass of everything you knew fell at your feet, revealing what was standing behind the mirror – grinning Death – and you are face to face, nose to nose with it! The shock was so great that the boy you were died of fright.   He was replaced by a stranger who slipped into your body, a MAN from the Warrior’s World.   In that savage place you give your word of honor to dance with Death instead of running away from it.   This suicidal waltz is known as: “Doing your duty.”You did your duty, survived the dance, and returned home.   But not all of you came back to the civilian world.   Your heart and mind are still in the Warrior’s World, as far away from the civilian world as Mars.   They will always be in the Warrior’s World.   They will never leave, they are buried there.   In that far off hallowed home of honor, life is about keeping your word. Back in the civilian world, however, people have no idea that life is about keeping your word of honor .   They think life is about ballgames, backyards, barbecues, babies and business. Your earning honor under fire; Your blood sacrifice; Your loss of serenity/peace of mind in the hard blast- furnace of battle; bought and paid for their freedom to indulge in this kind of soft civilian thinking.   The distance between the two worlds is as far as Mars from Earth.   This is why, when you come home, you feel like an outsider, a visitor from another planet. You are. Friends try to bridge the gaping gap between you.   It is useless.   They may as well look up at the sky and try to talk to a Martian as talk to you.   Words fall like bricks between you.   Serving with Warriors who died proving their word has made prewar friends seem too un- tested to be trusted – thus they are now mere acquaintances. The brutal truth is that earning honor in the white- hot forge of combat hammered the soft civilian you into a hardened Warrior accustomed to dancing the suicidal “Doing your duty” waltz with Death.   This unspeakable,  indescribable, life changing experience picked you up like a whirlwind and hurled you so far away from home that when you come back you feel like a stranger in your own home town, a visitor from another world, alone in a crowd of those you once knew.

The only time you do not feel alone is when with another combat veteran. Only he understands that keeping your word, your honor, whilst standing face to face with Death gives meaning and purpose to life. Only he understands that your terrifying — but thrilling — dance with Death has made your old world of backyards, barbecues and ballgames deadly dull. Only he understands that your way of being due to combat- damaged emotions is not un- usual, but the usual and you are OK, you are NORMAL for what you have been thru — repeat NORMAL!

There are countless hidden costs of combat that Warriors pay.   One is adrenaline addiction.   Most  combat veterans – including this writer – feel that war was the high point of our lives, and emotionally, life has been downhill ever since.   This is because we came home adrenaline junkies.   This was not our idea, we got that way doing our duty in combat situations such as: Crouching in a foxhole waiting for attacking enemy soldiers to get close enough for you to start shooting; Hugging the ground, waiting for the signal to leap up and attack the enemy; Sneaking along on a combat patrol out in no man’s land, seeking a gunfight; Suddenly realizing that you are walking in the middle of a mine field. Circumstances like these skyrocket your feelings of aliveness far above and beyond civilian life: Never have you felt so terrified – yet so thrilled; Never have you seen sky so blue, grass so green, breathed air so sweet, etc.; because waltzing with Death makes you feel stratospheric aliveness from being filled to the brim with adrenaline — pressed down and running over!