Fatality Metrics in Iraq

A large number of fatalities so far this month in Iraq, including 25 hostile coalition deaths and 3 non-hostile ones.

It is not entirely clear how many of these deaths are due to the recent offensive near the Syrian border and how many are just becausr the insurgents appear to be waxing for the moment.

But November is heading in the direction of being the deadliest month in Iraq since at least January, and the deadliest in terms of hostile deaths since November of last year.

This, of course, is my real concern with the fatalities in Iraq. It is not that the fatality rate (or overall casualty rate) is so high, it is that it keeps increasing.

That is all.