“In 36 days of combating on Iwo Jima right through Global Battle II, just about 7,000 Marines have been killed. Now, 20 days after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia invaded Ukraine, his army has already misplaced extra squaddies, in step with American intelligence estimates,” the New York Instances stories.
“The conservative facet of the estimate, at greater than 7,000 Russian troop deaths, is larger than the collection of American troops killed over twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan blended.”
“This can be a staggering quantity gathered in simply 3 weeks of combating, American officers say, with implications for the wrestle effectiveness of Russian devices, together with squaddies in tank formations. Pentagon officers say a ten p.c casualty fee, together with useless and wounded, for a unmarried unit renders it not able to hold out combat-related duties.”
