&gt; <i>During war-time, I would assume the body&#x27;s of your enemy would be plentiful.</i><p>In fact, when for instance Taliban or Daesh look at things, the enemy bodies are not plentiful at all. I think it is extremely rare for an American, British or NATO partner soldier&#x27;s body to fall in their hands. The Western losses in those wars are very small by historical standards, almost negligible, and evacuation is extremely efficient.<p>For instance, take the current Afghanistan war. Wikipedia: <i>&quot;As of October 1, 2015, there have been 2,326 U.S. military deaths in the War in Afghanistan. 1,856 of these deaths have been the result of hostile action.&quot;</i><p>1,856 casualties from enemy action in about 15 years. That is about the same number of casualties as Omaha Beach took in a single day. It&#x27;s half of what my father&#x27;s brigade inflicted in a single day against one single Russian infantry regiment in February 1942. It is one thousandth of what German Feldheer suffered in all of WWII, and one five-thousandth of what the Soviet army suffered in their &quot;great patriotic war&quot; during four years.<p>Casualty numbers in modern wars where Western troops attend are very small, when compared to historical wars.<p>The current Syrian civil war is then another matter. Its casualty numbers are not big when compared to WWII, but they are much bigger than Afghan or Iraq wars.