Personnel Attrition Rates in Historical Land Combat Operations. Some EmpiricalRelations among Force Sizes, Battle Durations

摘要

This paper uses historical data to develop some of the empirical relationshipsconnecting the number of total battle casualties (TBC) to force sizes and battle durations. Here TBC is defined to be the sum of the killed in action (KIA), wounded in action (WIA), and captured or missing in action (CMIA). Because these relations may be affected by battle date, long-term trends with respect to battle date are also included.