Friendly Fire

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besilarius

June 16, 2026, 10:38:56 AM
"During the Battles of Quatre Bras (June 16, 1815) and Waterloo (June 18, 1815), Anglo-Allied battalions or equivalent formations experienced 28 instances of "friendly fire," approximately 0.13-0.14 incidents per unit per day (the equivalent of about one incident per battalion for every eight days under fire), oddly, a statistic substantially the same as that found during combat operations over the past 60 years."
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Redwolf

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June 17, 2026, 06:07:40 PM
That sounds low to me.
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