Wars Ranked By US Combat Deaths
| Rank | War | Years | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | World War II | 1937–1945 | 291,557 |
| 2 | American Civil War | 1861–1865 | 212,938 |
| 3 | World War I | 1917–1918 | 53,402 |
| 4 | Vietnam War | 1955–1975 | 47,355 |
| 5 | Korean War | 1950–1953 | 33,746 |
| 6 | American Revolutionary War | 1775–1783 | 8,000 |
| 7 | War on Terror | 2001–present | 4,977 |
| 8 | War of 1812 | 1812–1815 | 2,260 |
| 9 | Mexican–American War | 1846–1848 | 1,733 |
| 10 | Northwest Indian War | 1785–1795 | 1,221+ |
| American Combat Deaths by War | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World War II | 291,557 | |||
| American Civil War | 212,938 | |||
| World War I | 53,402 | |||
| Vietnam | 47,355 | |||
| Korean War | 33,746 | |||
| American Revolutionary War | 8,000 | |||
| War on terror* | 6,595 | |||
| War of 1812 | 2,260 | |||
| Mexican American War | 1,733 | |||
| Northwest Indian War | 1,221+ | |||
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“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
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—George Washington (1732–1799)
“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
—Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)