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the word war invents so nobody has to say who died.
means people killed, wounded, missing, or captured as a result of conflict, disaster, or accident.
from from latin casus, meaning a fall or chance occurrence — a casualty was originally just something that happened by accident, which is exactly how militaries prefer you think of it.
broader than deathsincludes wounded, captured, and missing, not just killed
military mathplanners use casualty rates to predict, not mourn
civilian omissionofficial counts often exclude civilians entirely
for instance
somme 1916 — over one million casualties in a single five-month battle
hiroshima 1945 — roughly 140,000 dead by year end from one bomb
covid-19 pandemic — millions of excess deaths worldwide, still called casualties in reports