Why Contractor Fatalities
Matter
STEVEN L. SCHOONER
© 2008 Steven L. Schooner
T he true US death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan recently reached the 6,000
threshold. But that is not what the media are reporting and as a result, the
public remains generally unaware. At the end of July 2008, mainstream me-
dia reported that 4,673 service members have died in Operations Iraqi Free-
dom and Enduring Freedom. Counting only military fatalitie