Most readers, infact most people, with an anti-war bent will know the casualty counts for civilians in places like Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and beyond, but few are aware of just how costly the conflicts have been for European civilization.
From 1980 to 2022 the number of US military fatalities was some 61,192 American servicement and women. 77% of the male fatalities were White, and 65% of the female fatalities were White. In total 43,534 White men gave their lives in post 1980 military adventurism. No other racial group breaks 10,000.
As of 2009, when coalition forces pulled out of Iraq, some 4,800 Whites from more than a dozen European nations had lost their lives in that conflict. Tens of thousands more troops, from every Western nation, underwent surgeries, amputations, and continue to suffer from permanent disabilities and deal with cognitive decline.
In Afghanistan some 3,612 soldiers from more than two dozen nations were killed in the more than two decades of war and strife. With the exception of a handful of non-White American troops, two Koreans and some 15 Turks, all of these soldiers were White.
Only focusing on combat/theatre deaths would, however, be to miss the forest for a single (albeit exceptionally noble) tree. On the homefront front some 17 veterans commit suicide per day in the United States, roughly 6,400 a year. 81-90% of these suicides are Whites depending on the year. These suicides are overwhelmingly male as well. In the United Kingdom over 1,086 veterans, near universally White, have taken their lives between 1996 and 2018.