Are 90% of all wartime casualities Civliians? Hard to believe!

Since the dawn of the 20th century, can 90% of all wartime deaths be attributed to civllians alone?
Yes the weapons and tactics of warfare changed drastically, and we've seen the horrendous effects of genocide during wartime, however I just find this statistic hard to believe.

LD

During the war about 250,000 Polish soldiers were killed; 5 million Polish civilians died.

More Yugoslavian civilians died than soldiers, the same can be said in Greece, France, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Luxembourg. Pretty much anywhere Hitler sent his troops.

It's one of the fallacy's of holocaust denial; the suggestion that Hitler 'wasn't all that bad really'. Or do these idiots deny the many millions of gentile deaths too? Sigh...

Anyway, yes, war has changed, civilians are a worthless commodity.

I agree warfare did change at the turn of the 20th century but I would add it changed again at the turn,(approx), of the 21st century. Since many feel the U.S military is at the center and the cause of every military death worldwide I'll use us as an example of how war has again changed. If the U.S. felt civilians were a worthless commodity like you say we would be building bigger and more destructive weapons but the opposite is true. We are in fact building smaller but incredibly precise munitions. Just big enough to vaporize those unlucky enough to wind up in our sites and, with any luck, a few of the targets closet friends.

That's true, war is ever changing. I don't think the USA or Britain ever showed the absolute contempt for civilians that Hitler, Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot showed.

I agree warfare did change at the turn of the 20th century but I would add it changed again at the turn,(approx), of the 21st century. Since many feel the U.S military is at the center and the cause of every military death worldwide I'll use us as an example of how war has again changed. If the U.S. felt civilians were a worthless commodity like you say we would be building bigger and more destructive weapons but the opposite is true. We are in fact building smaller but incredibly precise munitions. Just big enough to vaporize those unlucky enough to wind up in our sites and, with any luck, a few of the targets closet friends.