Worst war for USA?

[Laurie Verge]

My list was identical to Gene's, except I put the Middle East conflicts ahead of WWI. As for harsh battle conditions, I go a little askew on this and vote for WWI.

I will admit to not knowing that much history about that war; but from what I have gathered in bits and pieces, I gather that our battle tactics had not kept up with the technology - men stumbling into barbed-wire and facing machine guns, for example. It had also been almost fifty years since the U.S. had been into battle (I don't count the short-lived Spanish American War), so our troops were rusty. And finally, the issue of chemical warfare with mustard gas introduced.