The majority of covid deaths would be toward the elderly range.
Almost every soldier death would be 18-25. I suspect the civilian would lean older but I don’t think it would entirely offset it.
Almost every soldier death would be 18-25. I suspect the civilian would lean older but I don’t think it would entirely offset it.
Absolutely not true. The age at which countries recruited were up to 45 normally (united states) or even 60 (Germany UK) and in Germany every able bodied male eventually ended in some kind of unit - if only home defense. Starting with 14 actually.
The ration of civilians to soldiers killed is 3:2 to 2:1.
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/greatwar/ages-of-the-dead/
Certainly lower than 55+, though ww2 could be moderately higher than 27 I doubt it.
The civilian to soldier death ration in wwi was different. The civilians were not directly targeted the way they were in wwii. The ideologization was lower and population itself was not the enemy the way it was in wwii.
Also, both Amrica and UK sent soldiers away to fight. UK was bombed, but did not had large displacement of population or ethnic cleansing or retaliation for those going on in their territories.
Modern wars kill more civilians then soldiers.
Excluding officers and keeping in logistics would not make much sense. (Tho logistics does not mean safe either).