Big Wars - death totals - from Wikipedia - 15 Nov 2011
World War 1 - 10 million military deaths - 1/3 caused by Spanish Flu
World War 1 - 7 million civilian deaths - 1 million direct deaths, plus 6 million indirect (illness and famine)
World War 2 - 24 million military dead
World War 2 - 49 million civilian dead
Korean War - 778,000 military dead
Korean War - 2.5 million civilian death/wounded - (???)
Vietnam War - 1.5 million military dead
Vietnam War - 420,000 to 2.5 million civilian deaths
( Iran / Iraq War - 1.3 million killed - 1980 to 1988 )
Gulf War - 1990 / 1991 - 20,000 to 35,000 military deaths (95% Iraqi)
Gulf War - 1990 / 1991 - 4,000 civilian deaths
Iraq War - approx 50,000 " warrior " deaths (includes "insurgents")
Iraq War - maybe 110,000 to 150,000 civilian deaths - maybe 650,000 excess deaths due to lack of health care, etc
Afghanistan War - 50,000 military dead (includes insurgents)
Afghanistan War - 14,000 to 34,000 civilian deaths
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If you compare this to 1.3 million people killed in car crashes around the world every year nowadays, it kinda makes you wonder what the hell the news media is smoking
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<http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/dpe/modern_conflicts/death_tolls.pdf> - war death totals