battlefield deaths
Wartime combat losses
Battlefield deaths are fatalities occurring during military combat, as distinct from other wartime casualties like deaths from disease, accidents, or civilian losses.
Military statistics often separate battlefield deaths from total war deaths: Battlefield deaths in the conflict exceeded fifty thousand, but twice that number died from cholera.
The term appears in historical analysis and policy discussions about the human cost of warfare.
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- killed in actionDied during combat operations
- fallenHaving dropped down
- fallen soldiersTroops killed in warfare
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
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