Losing less. But still, about 1 a year.

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal this week end showing some weird math: the number of unaccounted soldiers for at conflict's end vs recognized deaths per conflicts over the (recent) past.
I then took the liberty to feed Excel with those figures in the table below.

	1945	1953	1975	1991	1991	?
	WW II	Korea	Vietnam	Cold war	Gulf	Iraq
accounted	405000	37000	58000	28	382	3931
unaccounted	78000	8192	2646	138	1	4
ratio	19.26%	22.14%	4.56%	492.86%	0.26%	0.10%
duration	4	3	11	45	1	5
unacc./y	19500	2730.7	240.5	3.1	1.0	0.8

Years on first line are the conflict's ending year. The two last lines are duration per conflict and unaccounted per year of conflict. Clearly, the US Army is making progress in localization and identification.