Obama Administration Sees Three Quarters of All U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
by Edwin Mora 9 Dec 2013, 1:47 PM
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Almost three quarters of the 2,153
U.S. military fatalities in
the 12-year-old Afghanistan
war have taken place since Obama was first inaugurated, according to an
Associated Press (AP) tally.
Using the AP’s Afghanistan
casualties database, Breitbart News calculated that between January 20, 2009,
and the end of last month 1,595 U.S.
soldiers lost their lives in the Afghanistan conflict. The total
number of military deaths so far is 2,153.
That means that about 74 percent
of all U.S. military deaths
in Afghanistan
have taken place under Obama’s watch. During the eight years of the previous
administration there were only 558 fatalities, or about 26 percent of the
deaths that have taken place from October 7, 2001, the start of the war, to
November 30, 2013.
No deaths had been reported for
December 2013 at the time of this writing.
The information in the AP database
is gleaned from AP news reports and confirmed by the U.S. Department of Defense
(DoD).
Since the names of the soldiers
killed are not always released the same day the incident occurs, the total
number of deaths could be higher than indicated in this report. There could be
more deaths for November 2013 that have not been reported yet.
At least 1,416—close to 90
percent—of the 1,595 deaths under Obama are designated in the database as
"action-related." That means those soldiers were killed while
supporting combat operations.
However, the database does not
always reveal the exact cause of death. Some deaths remain under investigation
by the DoD. Of the fatalities under Obama’s watch, 66 deaths are designated as
"unknown" and 113 as "non-combat."
Those 113 deaths refer to soldiers
who lost their lives to illnesses and non-combat-related accidents.
There were three U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan in February 2010 involving soldiers who
were supporting military activity in Afghanistan. Breitbart News
excluded those deaths from all counts mentioned in this report. Those
combat-related deaths would bring the count under Obama’s watch to 1,598 and
the total number of soldiers killed since the start of the war to 2,156.
It is worth looking for a cause
for the disproportionate number of deaths during Obama's presidency. Obama
escalated the U.S. presence
in Afghanistan
almost immediately upon taking office. He later endorsed a withdrawal plan that
is well underway and which brings the NATO
combat mission to a close at the end of 2014.
The U.S.-led international force
is expected to transition security responsibilities to Afghanistan. A
residual force of U.S. soldiers is to remain behind to
continue training their Afghan counterparts and help them conduct
counterterrorism operations.
The scope of that force has yet to
be determined. U.S.
officials have proposed keeping an estimated 8,000 soldiers, but Afghanistan has not yet signed a post-2014
bilateral security agreement with the U.S.
An estimated 47,000 U.S. soldiers remain in Afghanistan.
This year is shaping up to have
the lowest death tally of any during Obama’s
presidency. The 110 fatalities reported so far in 2013 are similar in
number to those reported in 2007. Then there were a total of 110 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan,
followed by 151 in 2008. Those were the two highest casualty counts under
President Bush.
Obama has presided over three of
the highest annual counts of the 12-year-old Afghanistan conflict—2010 (492
deaths), 2011 (404 deaths), and 2012 (295 deaths).
U.S.
military fatalities
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president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a board
member for the International Crisis
Group, was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
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International Peace (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
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International Peace (think tank), and the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
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and is the NATO U.S. permanent representative
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was a supreme allied commander Europe nominee
for NATO.
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Jr. was the supreme allied commander – Europe for NATO, and is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Norman
W. Ray was an assistant secretary general for NATO, and a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
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K. Clark was a supreme allied commander – Europe for NATO, is a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
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secretary for the U.S. Army, and his
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participant (think tank).
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Holbrooke was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and a special U.S.
envoy for Afghanistan.
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was a U.S. ambassador for Afghanistan,
and is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
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Hagel is the chair for the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), the secretary at the U.S.
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combat veteran to lead the Department of Defense.
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(think tank), and was a United
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Council of the United States
(think tank), a United Nations U.S. ambassador
for the Barack Obama administration,
and is the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
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