The focus of the US military is the accomplishment of military objectives, not on indiscriminate slaughter.
I'm having trouble finding current comprehensive reports on casualties as a consequence of direct US military action, but we can look at the most recent major action, the US-initiated war in Iraq (2003--2011), in which the upper-bound estimate is about 645,000 casualties. That works out to about 80,000 per year. Low-end estimate is about 50,000/year. Note that this is now much reduced.
Highway traffic fatalities in the US are presently just under 50,000/year. Which is to say that peacetime fatalities due to transportation are on the order of total military deaths during a fairly major war. On a sustained basis, vehicles have likely killed more people than US military operations.
I'm having trouble finding current comprehensive reports on casualties as a consequence of direct US military action, but we can look at the most recent major action, the US-initiated war in Iraq (2003--2011), in which the upper-bound estimate is about 645,000 casualties. That works out to about 80,000 per year. Low-end estimate is about 50,000/year. Note that this is now much reduced.
Highway traffic fatalities in the US are presently just under 50,000/year. Which is to say that peacetime fatalities due to transportation are on the order of total military deaths during a fairly major war. On a sustained basis, vehicles have likely killed more people than US military operations.
Another stat: more people had died from 2000--2019 in US traffic deaths than all US military casualties from both World Wars: <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/mor...>
Note that military casualties is not total deaths inclusive of all combatants and civilian deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll#Mod...>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...>