The Americans learned one lesson from Vietnam: don't count the civilian dead. As a result, no one knows how many Iraqis have been killed in the five years since the invasion. Estimates put the toll at between 100,000 and one million, and now a bitter war of numbers is raging.
Lieutenant General Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan during his time as head of US Central Command, once announced, "We don't do body counts."
The U.S. military on Saturday said it struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy ships were...
Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of...
The US Central Command (Centcom) said it targeted Iran as it posed an "imminent threat" in...
