在美国“倒萨之战”开打以前,国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德多次在战争动员会上给美国官兵打气说:“这将是一场高科技战争,零伤亡战争,美国有绝对把握取胜。”当然,拉姆斯菲尔德所说的“零伤亡”指的是美国士兵,而非伊拉克方面。然而事实看来,尽管美军在伊拉克战争中充分使用了高科技手段,与伊拉克相比占了绝对优势,但美军的“零伤亡”目标在战争一开始就被打破了。据不完全统计,在伊拉克战争的头4天里,美英联军就损失了31名官兵, Before the war on “Reversal was opened” in the United States, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cheered on many U.S. officers and soldiers at the war mobilization meeting: “This will be a high-tech war and zero casualty war. The United States absolutely has the chance to win.” Of course, what Rumsfeld calls “zero casualties” refers to U.S. soldiers, not the Iraqi ones. However, it seems that despite the fact that the U.S. military made full use of high-tech means in the war in Iraq and gained an absolute superiority over Iraq, the U.S. goal of “zero casualties” was broken from the very beginning of the war. According to incomplete statistics, during the first four days of the war in Iraq, the U.S.-British coalition forces lost 31 officers and men,