The Iran-Iraq Conflict: The Tragedy of Limited Conventional War
| Autor: | John Sigler |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis. 41:424-456 |
| ISSN: | 2052-465X 0020-7020 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002070208604100208 |
| Popis: | 1 The statistics on major interstate wars are taken from Melvin Small and J. David Singer, Resort to Arms: International and Civil Wars, 1816-1980 (Beverly Hills ca: Sage 1982), 89-102: World War II, 16 million battle deaths; World War I, 9 million; Korea, 2 million; Vietnam 1965-75, 1.2 million; Sino-Japanese 1937^41, 1 million. Battle death figures for the Iran-Iraq War are far from reliable at this point; estimates vary from 500,000 to 1 million: Washington Times, 14 March 1986. The next ranking war is the Lopez war in Latin America, 1865-75, 310,000 deaths. 2 Singer and Small (ibid, 92-3) report the following totals for the Arab-Israeli wars: 1948 (5000 Arabs, 3000 Israelis), 1956 (3000 Egyptians, 200 Israelis), 1967 (18,600 Arabs, 1000 Israelis), 1968-70 War of Attrition (5000 Egyptians, 368 Israelis), 1973 (13,400 Arabs, 3000 Israelis), for a total of 45,000 Arabs and 7,568 Israelis. Statistics on the 1982-5 Israeli invasion of Lebanon are far more speculative on the Arab side where for the first time in an Arab-Israeli conflict, civilian casualties have vastly exceeded military casualties: estimates are 20,000 Arab casualties in Lebanon, only a small portion of which represent plo, Syrian, Lebanese army, and militia casualties, and 654 Israelis. The total military battle death figures in these six episodes comes to approximately 50,000 on the Arab side, and 8200 Israelis. These figures do not include terrorist and counter-terrorist actions over the 40-year period. |
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