Huffington Post – More than 50,000 Americans have been combat-wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001, a grim measure of the cost of more than a decade of war. According to Defense Department accounting, the number of wounded reached 50,010 on Thursday. The names of the wounded are not released. Unlike those killed in [...]
Huffington Post – In more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, the United States military has failed to defeat the insurgents’ main weapon — the IED, or roadside bomb — and has been unable to prevent the spread of a deadly new Taliban tactic, the so-called “insider” attacks by Afghan soldiers on U.S. [...]
Talk of the war has been surprising absent this campaign season. Our presence in Afghanistan is assumed and not up for debate while our men and women sustain physical and psychological injuries or end up as fatalities as a consequence. Over 17,000 have been wounded, over 3,000 have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress [...]
Huffington Post – Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney will say it out loud, but the unpopular, 11-year war in Afghanistan is not drawing to a close. Instead, substantial numbers of U.S. troops likely will be committed there for years, no matter who wins, according to U.S. officials, campaign advisers and nonpartisan experts. In [...]
Huffington Post – The U.S. military’s top general met with American, coalition and local officials in Afghanistan on Monday to try to stop a wave of lethal attacks by Afghan soldiers and police against international forces. Once an anomaly, attacks on international troops from inside the Afghan security forces have been climbing in recent [...]
It is far easier to deal with a foreign war if you have an understanding of the situation. Kudos for our servicemen and servicewomen for performing admirably in spite of the failures of command to provide context for the mission at hand. The rates of PTS and suicide are far too high and training [...]
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