On Call in Hell tells one Navy doctor’s story of his time in Iraq. In the process, it brings up a stat I don’t often hear in the news:
By mid-December, Fallujah was secured. It had been the worst urban fighting involving Americans since Vietnam. At least 53 Marines and Navy SEALs died, as did something like 1,600 insurgents.
That’s a 30-to-1 ratio of insurgents to Americans.