Question

During ww2 about 1.8% of us soldiers were killed directly in battle. This number went down to 0.5% at Vietnam war. What was this number in the Persian gulf war? 0.1%? 0.06%? 0.001%? Or 0.01%?

Answer 1

It was very small percentage of US soldiers killed in Gulf war. There was roughly 700,000 US soldiers in this war and 147 of them were killed in a battle. It would make 0.021% mortality rate ( closest to 0.01%).
Answer: 0.01%.