Abstract: In recent weeks, newspapers in the UK have produced covers that feature pictures of the faces of the 200 military personnel who have lost their lives fighting in Afghanistan. The young soldiers killed are the most apparent losses of Britain’s military endeavours, but unfortunately the casualties will keep coming in the future. When it comes to the war in Afghanistan and Britain’s military deployment in Iraq, the forgotten casualties of war may not be the civiliansand ‘enemy insurgents’ killed in far-off lands (although undeniably both groups receive scant consideration). Instead, the other casualties of war are, perhaps, those soldiers who return seemingly physically healthy after military service, and the unfortunate people who, at some unspecified point in the future will become the victims of their crimes.