war in Iraq. They employ a novel measurement model and a database of survey marginals to estimate weekly time series of … to casualties and key events than are aggregate beliefs about the war’s merits. This suggests that the link from … casualties and events to presidential approval is less direct than previously assumed. …

Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data ….S. Active Duty service members having served at some point during the years 2001-2012. Casualties disproportionately occur at … types. Our estimates indicate that overall U.S. military personnel who deployed in an individual year to Iraq or Afghanistan …

In the early stages of the counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, military leaders resisted the release of body count and …€œlimited†American casualties in specific operations versus the “significant†number of insurgents killed. This article examines the …

roles they play. These roles include Primary Casualty Information (e.g., monthly casualties), which directly influences … opinion; Contextual Casualty Information (e.g., enemy casualties), which mitigates the effect of primary casualties; and two … information to evaluate costs. I use the reporting of female casualties to represent an example of secondary casualty information …

presidential address was in part intended as an announcement towards ending the Iraq War, it specifically denoted the official end … of the US combat mission in Iraq, leaving 58,000 U.S. troops in an "advise and assist" role to aid Iraqi forces. Using … public opinion survey data, this paper examines public opinion on the continued US presence in Iraq since the end of combat …