General and Flag Officers Killed in War - War on the Rocks

Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, reports began flowing out of Afghanistan that a U.S. Army general had been killed. He was later identified as Major General Harold Greene, deputy commander of the Combined Security Transition Command, the unit charged with overseeing training of Afghan security forces. He was killed in an attack, which also wounded more than a dozen other coalition soldiers, by a gunman believed to have been an Afghan soldier. Maj. Gen. Greene is the highest-ranking officer to have been killed in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Below is a list of American general officers and flag officers who have been killed in wartime since World War II.