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2020-06-15 Afghanistan

171 Govt Forces Killed in a Week in Taliban Attacks: Officials

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 This is an annualized rate of ~9K. Uncle Sam withdrew from Vietnam after suffering ~8K KIA a year for 8 years. The US population at the time was 5x Afghanistan's. Of course, the Afghans fighting the Taliban have no place to go, except Pakistan or Iran, so their threshold may be somewhat higher. And the ARVN suffered deaths amounting to about ~8K a year for 30 years, despite a population around 1/3 Afghanistan's.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2020-06-15 15:54|| 2020-06-15 15:54|| Front Page Top

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