A casualty is a person who is the victim of an accident, injury, or trauma Physical trauma refers to a physical injury, generally of a considerably severe degree. A trauma patient is someone who has suffered serious and life-threatening physical injury with the potential for secondary complications such as shock, respiratory failure and death. The word casualties is most often used by the news media to describe deaths and injuries resulting from wars War is a behavior pattern exhibited by many primate species including man, and also found in many ant species. The primary feature of this behavior pattern is a certain state of organized violent conflict that is engaged in between two or more separate social entities. Such a conflict is quite often an attempt to resolve a dispute over various or disasters A disaster is the tragedy of a natural or human-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment. Casualties is sometimes misunderstood to mean fatalities, but non-fatal injuries are also casualties.
In military A military is an organization authorized by its country to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. As an adjective the term "military" is also used to refer to any property or aspect of a military. Militaries often function as societies within societies, by having usage, casualties usually refer to combatants who have been rendered combat-ineffective, or all persons lost to active military service, which comprises those killed in action Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to hostile attack. KIAs do not come from incidents such as accidental, killed by disease A disease or medical condition is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions, associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases, disabled by physical injuries, disabled by psychological trauma Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a traumatic event. When that trauma leads to posttraumatic stress disorder, damage may involve physical changes inside the brain and to brain chemistry, which damage the person's ability to adequately cope with stress, captured A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war (EPW) is a combatant who is held in continuing custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase is dated 1660, deserted In military terminology, desertion is the abandonment of a "duty" or post without permission from one's Government or superior. The term AWOL is an acronym for "Absent WithOut Leave." Ultimate "duty" or "responsibility," however, under International Law, is not necessarily always to a "Government", and missing Missing in action is a status assigned to armed services personnel who are reported missing during active service. They may have been killed, wounded, become a prisoner of war, or deserted. If deceased, neither their remains nor grave can be positively identified. Becoming MIA has been an occupational risk for service personnel for as long as, but does not include injuries which do not prevent a person from fighting.
Civilian casualties Civilian casualties is a military term describing civilian or non-combatant persons killed, injured, or imprisoned by military action. The description of civilian casualties includes any form of military action regardless of whether civilians were targeted directly. This differs from the description of collateral damage that only applies to is a military A military is an organization authorized by its country to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. As an adjective the term "military" is also used to refer to any property or aspect of a military. Militaries often function as societies within societies, by having term describing civilian A civilian under international humanitarian law is a person who is not a member of his or her country's armed forces. The term is also often used colloquially to refer to people who are not members of a particular profession or occupation, especially by law enforcement agencies, which often use rank structures similar to those of military units or non-combatant Non-combatant is a military and legal term describing civilians not engaged in combat. It also includes persons, such as medical personnel and chaplains (who are regular soldiers but are protected because of their function) and soldiers who are hors de combat persons killed or injured by military action. The sum of casualties, whether military personnel or civilians, is known as the casualty count. Civilian prisoners of war are also casualties of war, but are counted separately from those injured or killed.
In combat before World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict between 1939 and 1945, which involved most of the world's nations, including all great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved the mobilisation of over 100 million military personnel, making it the most widespread war in, deaths by disease usually outnumbered deaths in combat.
In the past, 20-30% of those wounded in combat died, about 1 in 4. Due to modern medicine and armor, the ratio has decreased to around 1 in 9.[citation needed]
References
- Casualty - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [1].
Further reading
- America's Wars: U.S. Casualties and Veterans [2]. Infoplease Pearson plc is a London-based education and media conglomerate. It is the largest book publisher in the UK, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the US and Canada. Marjorie Scardino has been CEO since 1997. The headquarters for Pearson is at 80 Strand, the former Shell Mex House. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and.
- Online text [3]: War Casualties (1931), by Albert G. Love, Lt. Colonel, Medical Corps Categories: Military medical organizations | Military medicine, U.S.A.. Medical Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. The Army Medical Bulletin Number 24.
- Selected Death Tolls for Wars, Massacres and Atrocities Before the 20th Century [4].
- Statistical Summary: America's Major Wars [5]. U.S. Civil War Center.
- The world's worst massacres [6]. By Greg Brecht. Fall, 1987. Whole Earth Review Whole Earth was a magazine which was founded in January 1985 after the merger of The Whole Earth Software Review (a supplement to the The Whole Earth Software Catalog) and the CoEvolution Quarterly. All of these periodicals are descendants of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog. The last issue of the magazine, guest-edited by Alex Steffen, was.
- Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15].
- Gifford, Brian. “Combat Casualties and Race: What Can We Learn from the 2003-2004 Iraq Conflict?” [16]. Armed Forces & Society, Jan 2005; vol. 31: pp. 201-225.
- Kummel, Gerhard and Nina Leonhard“Casualties and Civil-Military Relations: The German Polity between Learning and Indifference.” [17].Armed Forces & Society, Jul 2005; vol. 31: pp. 513-535.
- Smith, Hugh. “What Costs Will Democracies Bear? A Review of Popular Theories of Casualty Aversion.” [18]. Armed Forces & Society, Jul 2005; vol. 31: pp. 487-512
- Van Der Meulen, Jan and Joseph Soeters.“Considering Casualties: Risk and Loss during Peacekeeping and Warmaking.” [19]. Armed Forces & Society, Jul 2005; vol. 31: pp. 483-486.
- Bennett, Stephen Earl and Richard S. Flickinger. “Americans’ Knowledge of U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq, April 2004 to April 2008.” [20]. Armed Forces & Society, Apr 2009; vol. 35: pp. 587-604.
- Varoglu, A. Kadir and Adnan Bicaksiz“Volunteering for Risk: The Culture of the Turkish Armed Forces.” [21]. Armed Forces & Society, Jul 2005; vol. 31: pp. 583-598
- Ben-Ari, Eyal. “Epilogue: A ‘Good’ Military Death.” [22]. Armed Forces & Society, Jul 2005; vol. 31: pp. 651-664
Categories: Military terminology | War casualties A war casualty is a military person who is killed, wounded, imprisoned, or missing as a result of war; or a non-military person killed, wounded, or imprisoned due to war . The term casualty is sometimes confused with the term fatality (death) |
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