I don’t know if they’re the top 10 stories that I missed, but there are certainly several stories there that I hadn’t previously run into before.
Here’s a snippet of one of the stories that I was aware of, albeit with some numbers that are new to me:
Foreign Policy: The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2005
…In 2005, the most common number cited regarding the war in Iraq was the more than 2,100 U.S. soldiers that have died. When the number of wounded was mentioned, the Pentagon figure of more than 15,500 U.S. troops, or the Army Medical Department’s total of 20,748 medical evacuations, was usually rolled out. Today, the wounded-to-dead ratio remains near 7 to 1 by this official count. But a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) report released in October tells a bigger story. Its data shows that 119,247 veterans of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have sought VA healthcare…
