Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

U.S. air forces dropped 635,000 tons of explosives during the three years of the war, more than the total used in the World War II Pacific theater, including over 30,000 tons of napalm.46 An estimated 400,000 to one million Chinese soldiers died, and according to the head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, so did one-fifth of the North Korean population.47 The United States lost fewer than 35,000 men, inaugurating the new epoch of American lethal efficiency.