Some people find the latter figure particularly revealing, especially when they discover that the list of troop contributing countries is lead by such nations as Bangladesh with 10,852 uniformed personnel, closely followed by Pakistan with 10,733 and India with 8,783.
Across Afghanistan, lists of troops and police officers are filled with fake names, or the names of men killed in the fighting, but not officially declared dead.
Members of Russia's presidential council on human rights have asked for an investigation into the deaths of nine military contractors, while the Stavropol Committee of Soldiers Motherss has compiled a list of 400 Russian troops it says have recently been either killed or wounded.
Releases have been promised, then have not taken place, causing the United Nations to increase the number of troops listed as missing.
He then reeled off a list of 34 countries with troops in Iraq.
It has compiled a list of clashes with government troops and has video showing the bodies of five Hmong children after what it says was an attack by government troops in May 2004.
A contingent of American Special Forces trainers landed in this former Soviet republic today, adding Georgia to the list of countries where American troops have been sent in the eight-month-old campaign against terrorism.
Further along the wall are six large black slabs etched with a more recent list of deaths – those of the troops who have died since British forces returned to Afghanistan in 2001.
There have been some truly terrible failures that have stained American military honor, to be sure: Abu Ghraib, Haditha, Mahmudiya, among a lengthening list of instances where rogue American troops behaved no better than Saddam's thugs.
In 1774, a British commander gave his troops a list of men — including John Hancock and Sam Adams — who, the minute war broke out, were to be shot on sight, and he added a postscript: "N.B.
