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Suspension of Combatant Status of Wounded Soldiers (Abstract)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Reinhold R. Schultze
Affiliation:
Kreiskrankenhaus, 59 Siegen, West Germany

Extract

Trends in recent warfare show a movement in the proportion of wounded soldiers to wounded civilians from 20:1 in World War I to a conjectured 1:100 in the case of atomic, biological or chemical warfare. Modern methods of waging war mean that for every fighting man, a group is engaged in logistics, and that for every dead soldier, an increasing number are wounded. Furthermore, the number of severely wounded cases is proportionately increasing.

Type
Section Three—Military Contributions to Disaster Medicine
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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