according to Homeland (intro, xx), the "series of military campaigns" that constitute the war on terror resulted in "some 900,000 deaths by 2021, including the deaths of nearly 400,000 civilians"
difficult to tell how many Americans have died, since many who died were contractors of one form or another and "the government does not track casualty numbers for contractors" (xxi)
"It wasn't until 2020 that researchers at Brown and Boston Universities announced that America's wars in the Middle East had killed more contractors than troops, a finding that had no effect on public policy. 'You don't see yellow ribbons around trees for contractors,' one researcher said"