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The People's Line

War casualties are usually inflicted by the other side

Modern war propaganda demands a false agnosticism that's defied by history and common sense.

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Carl Beijer
Oct 19, 2023
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PHOTO CREDIT: Marcin Monko. Licensed under Creative Commons 2.0.

Until about a century ago, deaths in war usually didn’t come from warfare itself. It came from the diseases like typhus and dyssentary that inevitably accompanied large groups on men living in close quarters under unsanitary conditions. In the US Civil War, for example, about 225k soldiers …

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