User:Rangeley/Iraq War InfoboxTest
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| Iraq War | |||||||||
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 U.S. troops pass by burning oil fields while convoying to Al Jawala, Iraq, during an operation. |
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| Combatants | |||||||||
 Ba’athist IraqInsurgent Forces:  Ba’ath Loyalists Al-Qaeda in IraqMahdi Army |
 New Iraqi Army Kurdish forcesCoalition Forces:  United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia |
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| Commanders | |||||||||
| Saddam Hussein (captured, executed) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (dead, KIA) Abu Ayyub al-Masri Moqtada al-Sadr Hadi Al-Amiri |
Nouri al-Maliki George W. Bush Tommy Franks George Casey David Petraeus Tony Blair Brian Burridge Peter Wall |
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| Strength | |||||||||
| Iraqi 375,000+ regular forces Sunni Insurgents 60,000[citation needed] Mahdi Army 60,000[1] [5] Badr Organization 4-10,000[citation needed] al Qaeda/others 1,300+[6] |
Coalition 315,000 invasion 147,000 current Contractors ~48,000 Kurds 50,000 (peak) New Iraqi Army 129,760 Iraqi Police 79-140,000 |
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| Casualties | |||||||||
| Iraqi military dead (Saddam-era): 4,895-6,370 [7] [8] Insurgents dead: No verifiable tally. [9] [10] |
Iraqi Security Forces dead (post-Saddam era): 12,000+ [11][12]
Iraqi Security Forces wounded: unknown Coalition dead (inc. 3,059 US, 130 UK, 123 other, *770 contractors): 4,082 [13] [14][15] Coalition Missing or Captured (US 2): 2 Coalition Wounded (inc. 22,951 U.S., 893+ UK, 3,963+ contractors): 27,808 [16] [13] [17] [18] [19] |
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| **Total deaths (all Iraqis) Johns Hopkins: 392,979 - 942,636 [20] [21] War-related and criminal violence deaths (all Iraqis) Iraq Health Minister: War-related and criminal violence deaths (civilians) Iraq Body Count-english language media only: |
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| *Contractors (U.S. government) = "former special forces soldiers to drivers, cooks, mechanics, plumbers, translators, electricians and laundry workers and other support personnel." [14] **Total deaths include all additional deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc. For explanations of the wide variation in casualty estimates, see: Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 |
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