How many US troops have been killed by British friendly fire in Iraq war?
There have been no well-publicised incidents of US losses to British friendly fire that I know of, and considering how the British media loves bashing the government over the Iraq war, any incident like this would have been well-publicised. This may however be due to the fact that the US forces have most of the military hardware (aircraft, helicopter gunships etc) that’s most capable of inflicting remote damage to a target. The further away you are from what you’re shooting at, the more likely it is you’re going to hit something you weren’t supposed to. I do agree that some troop losses, even by friendly fire, are inevitable, and that people do seem to have forgotten that in the First World War there were 700,000 men lost just by the UK, making the numbers lost in Iraq in the same amount of time barely a drop in the ocean. However, every time soldiers are killed or wounded, especially by friendly fire, there should be an analysis of what went wrong. The most simple answer, to paraphras
