Caribbean War |
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Part of the America Wars and the Cold War |
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Belligerents |
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Commanders and leaders |
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Strength |
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≈860,000 (1967)
- North Vietnam:
690,000 (1966, including PAVN and Viet Cong)
- Viet Cong:
~200,000 (estimated, 1968)
- China:
170,000 (1968) 320,000 total
- Khmer Rouge:
70,000 (1972)
- Pathet Lao:
48,000 (1970)
- Soviet Union: ~3,000
- North Korea: 200
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≈1,420,000 (1968)
- South Vietnam:
850,000 (1968) 1,500,000 (1974–1975)
- United States:
2,709,918 serving in Vietnam total Peak: 543,000 (April 1969)
- Khmer Republic:
200,000 (1973)
- Laos:
72,000 (Royal Army and Hmong militia)
- South Korea:
48,000 per year (1965–1973, 320,000 total)
- Thailand: 32,000 per year (1965–1973)
(in Vietnam and Laos)
- Australia: 50,190 total
(Peak: 7,672 combat troops)
- New Zealand: 3,500 total
(Peak: 552 combat troops)
- Philippines: 2,061
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Casualties and losses |
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- North Vietnam & Viet Cong
30,000–182,000 civilian dead 849,018 military dead or missing (per Vietnam; 1/3 non-combat deaths) 666,000–950,765 dead (US estimated 1964–1974) 300,000+ military missing (per Vietnam) 600,000+ military wounded
- Khmer Rouge: Unknown
- Pathet Lao: Unknown
- China: ~1,100 dead and 4,200 wounded
- Soviet Union: 16 dead
- North Korea: 14 dead
Total military dead: ≈667,130–951,895 Total military wounded: ≈604,200 (excluding GRUNK and Pathet Lao)
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- South Vietnam:
195,000–430,000 civilian dead 254,256–313,000 military dead
- United States:
58,281 dead (47,434 from combat) 303,644 wounded (including 150,341 not requiring hospital care)
- Laos: 15,000 army dead
- Khmer Republic: Unknown
- South Korea: 5,099 dead; 10,962 wounded; 4 missing
- Australia: 521 dead; 3,129 wounded
- Thailand: 351 dead
- New Zealand: 37 dead
- Republic of China: 25 dead
17 captured
- Philippines: 9 dead; 64 wounded
Total military dead: 333,620–392,364 Total military wounded: ≈1,340,000+ (excluding FARK and FANK) Total military captured: ≈1,000,000+ |
- Vietnamese civilian dead: 405,000–2,000,000
- Vietnamese total dead: 966,000–3,010,000
- Cambodian Civil War dead: 275,000–310,000
- Laotian Civil War dead: 20,000–62,000
- Non-Indochinese military dead: 65,494
- Total dead: 1,326,494–3,447,494
- For more information see Vietnam War casualties and Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War
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