Possibly the lowest since the war began. I know we still have a day left, and something major may happen.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Another very low Casualty month in Iraq
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Deaths and casualties are not the same thing; despite its name that site really tracks dead and missing. Only 18 dead would be pretty amazing all things considered, but the toll the month before was pretty high and insurgent attacks, particularly the operations of IED cells come in cycles. They’ll spend days, even weeks plotting out the movements of coalition forces in a given sector, figuring out every road they use, every alternative route or sudden diversion they might take, then mine them all and launch a wave of rapid attacks, before moving shop to somewhere else.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
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— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Every April has a high death toll. Last month in fact was tied for the lowest deaths in April since the war began.Sea Skimmer wrote:Deaths and casualties are not the same thing; despite its name that site really tracks dead and missing. Only 18 dead would be pretty amazing all things considered, but the toll the month before was pretty high and insurgent attacks, particularly the operations of IED cells come in cycles. They’ll spend days, even weeks plotting out the movements of coalition forces in a given sector, figuring out every road they use, every alternative route or sudden diversion they might take, then mine them all and launch a wave of rapid attacks, before moving shop to somewhere else.