Here’s our latest monthly, highly abbreviated version of the Iraq Index, published and updated twice a week by Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution:
Americans Killed in Action, Iraq (monthly average)
2003: 32
2004: 59
2005: 56
2006: 58
2007: 88
June: 99
Americans Killed in Action, Vietnam (monthly average)
1965: 128*
1966: 420
1967: 767
1968: 1140
1969: 785
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* = First U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam, 5.3.65
Vietnam table compiled by Galen Fox using Defense Department sources.
Crude Oil Production (m. bbls./day)
Prewar Peak: 2.50
Goal: 2.10 (Revised downward, 1/07)
actual: 1.98 (6/07)
Electricity (megawatts)
Prewar: 3,958
Goal: 6,000
actual: 4,240 (6/07)
Since our last monthly report, the American KIA total dropped from May's 117 to 99. The surge continues to cost American lives. The April-June three-month total of 311 KIA is the highest for any three-month period in the war. [Please note: the number of KIA is almost always lower than the media-reported total of American deaths, which covers all causes, including non-hostile. Our Iraq and Vietnam figures are KIA only.] The total KIA of 99 in June raises the monthly KIA average for 2007 to 88. That average is higher than all months in 2006 but two, and higher than any single month in 2005.
Oil output declined yet again from May to June, dropping further below the target revised downward in January. In the case of electricity, output during the heat of summer rose to a 2007 high in June, but remained below June 2006's average output of 4,400 megawatts.
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