US & Allied Killed | Costs of War
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
- Over 7,000 U.S. service members and over 8,000 contractors have died in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
- Over 30,177 U.S. service members and veterans of the post-9/11 wars have died by suicide.
- Coalition partners have died in large numbers: approximately 177,000 uniformed Afghans, Pakistanis, Iraqis, and Syrian allies have died as of November 2019.
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Note that they have underestimated allied deaths. It's closer to 300,000 US + allies dead total. So, yeah, an insurgency in Europe is a nightmare scenario. Terrorism can be one too.
You didn't get the point, so why am I not surprised?
In a war, apart from soldier casualties, you also see material losses and major changes in territory. But in this war, we are not seeing as much material or territorial losses, but just soldiers dying over small amounts of territory. I'm not calling this an insurgency, this is a war, but what I'm saying is the losses we are seeing is similar to what we see in insurgencies.
Second point being the Russians are going to want to take revenge on the West for this. So we could either see terrorism or insurgency or both in Europe. Or NATO could get pulled into some other conflict elsewhere, like over Iran or NoKo.
