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Despite how bad this seems, it's a good thing that barely anyone is dying from war. Even adding up the highest possible estimates, we're doing a hell of a lot b
by AnkhMorporkian 12y ago
Despite how bad this seems, it's a good thing that barely anyone is dying from war. Even adding up the highest possible estimates, we're doing a hell of a lot better than the 20th century was.
- philwelch 12y agoThe 20th century didn't even start racking up real casualties until...right about now, actually.
- nroets 12y agoMaybe where you live. Here in South Africa, the 20th century started with significant casualties as the British Empire expanded.
- CmonDev 12y agoSignificant casualties probably started even earlier - with the arrival of the Dutch slavers.
- icebraining 12y agoI'm pretty sure those arrived before the 20th century.
- nroets 12y agoCasualties/war/violence did not start with the arrival of the Dutch as you are implying. Casualties/war/violence is part of human nature. For example there is clear evidence that the Bantus violently drove the Khoisan out of much of South Africa some 4000 years ago. The long term trend is however that South Africa (and the rest of the world) is become less violent and more humane. For example slavery was abolished here in 1834.
- atlantic 12y agoNow we're in the 21st century. The 20th included two major world wars, as well as numerous smaller conflicts, including all the wars of colonial independence.
- philh 12y agoPretty sure that "right about now" meant "about as far through the 20th century as we are currently through the 21st", i.e. December 1914, about 5 months into WW1.
- DanBC 12y agoThere were 36 wars in the 20th century that started and ended before 1914. Those wars had about 500,000 deaths. http://www.war-memorial.net/wars_all.asp http://www.war-memorial.net/wars_all.asp Chinese Govt vs Bai Lang (White Wolf) Rebels 1914 - 1914 5,000 2nd Balkan War 1913 - 1913 60,500 Kuomintang vs Chinese Army 1913 - 1913 5,000 Moro Rebellion 1913 - 1913 15,050 1st Balkan War 1912 - 1913 82,000 [1] Paraguay Coups 1911 - 1912 5,000 Italo-Turkish War 1911 - 1912 20,000 First Sino-Tibetan War 1911 - 1912 2,000 Cuba vs Partido Independiente de Color 1911 - 1911 1,050 Chinese Revolution 1911 - 1911 1,000 [2] Asir-Yemen Revolt 1910 - 1911 9,000 French Conquest of Wadai Sultanate 1909 - 1911 12,000 The second Rif War 1909 - 1910 10,000 Portugese war against Dembos 1907 - 1910 5,100 Ma al-’Aynayn’s Anti-Colonial Insurgency 1907 - 1910 3,150 Korean guerilla war against Japanese occupation 1907 - 1910 17,736 Iranian Constitution War 1908 - 1909 1,100 Morocco unrest 1907 - 1908 1,400 Romanian Peasant Revolt 1907 - 1907 2,000 4th Central American war 1907 - 1907 1,000 Dutch-Achinese War 1904 - 1907 24,200 Sokoto and UK vs Mahdist Revolt 1906 - 1906 2,080 Zulu Rebellion 1906 - 1906 2,356 Third Central American war 1906 - 1906 1,000 Russian Revolution 1905 1905 - 1906 1,500 Maji Maji revolt 1905 - 1906 8,840 Russo-Japanese war 1904 - 1905 151,831 [1] Southwest African Revolt 1904 - 1905 12,800 [1] Uruguay Civil War 1904 - 1904 1,000 Second Yemen Rebellion 1904 - 1904 30,000 Uprisings in Colonial Angola 1902 - 1904 2,000 Ilinden Uprising 1903 - 1903 6,330 The War of a Thousand Days 1899 - 1903 100,000 Philippine insurrection 1899 - 1902 20,500 Second Boer war 1899 - 1902 30,800 The Boxer Rebellion 1900 - 1900 3,003 Sino-Russian War 1900 - 1900 4,000 EDIT: I'm on mobile. Sorry for the awful formating.
- cpa 12y agoBarely any US soldier, not barely anyone.
- mmoss 12y agoWell over 100,000 Iraqi deaths are attributable to the Iraq War. Additionally, 4,491 U.S. service members were killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tab...
- kjjw 12y agoHardly any American soldiers. Wars still result in large numbers of other casualties; civilian and military. https://www.iraqbodycount.org/ https://www.iraqbodycount.org/ Let's not forget what is happening in Palestine, too. Leaving aside the politics, the casualty counts are definitely asymmetric.
- rikacomet 12y agoIndeed, the casualties should not be measured in terms of nationality. A death is "the end".. bye bye.. sayonara.. all the politics, culture, social.. etc doesn't matter once death arrives. May the Almighty be with us all, and help us stop casualties everywhere, no matter the cause.
- netcan 12y agoIf you are going to bring up something as a "lets not forget" point, why Palestine? It is not the highest casualty conflict of this year, the last 5 years, etc.
- kjjw 12y agoIt is another example of the new form war takes when it comes to casualties: highly asymmetric. It has recently been in the news, thus on my mind. No other reason I bring it up.