It turns out that there is something American leaders can do to transform the effectiveness and survivability of infantry soldiers and Marine "ground-pounders, " troops who are obliged to perform today's tough jobs in urban settings and elsewhere pretty much the same way their grandfathers did in World War II.
Such deaths happen in every instance of urban warfare, from the post-Normandy fighting in the villages of France in World War II to the more recent NATO bombing of Serbia.