The half million figure accounts for both combatant and civilian deaths from direct fighting and war violence, however the number could be much higher as the study didn't account for the perhaps far higher number of civilians killed through infrastructure damage, such as hospitals or water supplies becoming inoperable, or other indirect results of the wars.
Tragically, civilians make up over 50% of the roughly 500,000 killed, and the study estimates further that both US-backed foreign forces and opposition militants each sustained over 100,000 deaths.
In terms of American forces, the report finds that over 60,000 US troops were either killed or wounded within the three post 9/11 conflicts. This includes 6,951 US military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since US invasions of those countries in 2001 and 2003.
Concerning the now seventeen year long "forgotten war" in Afghanistan, the study concluded,according to VOA:
Fatalities in Afghanistan, as of October 2018, stood at about 147,000 people, including Afghan security forces, civilians and opposition fighters. The figure also included the deaths of 6,334 American soldiers and contractors, as well as more than 1,100 allied troops.
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Obama campaigned on ending the war and he did. This study is a hoax we are not a war obama said so.
...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand left the USA with at least a $22 TRILLION dollar debt...and STILL counting.
I'm a conservative and a Republican but we should have never been there and we need to leave now. Many American lives lost and wounded because of that POS George W bush.
238 shut up. Guarantee you were cheerleading us straight into the Iraq debacle and you were one of the people calling Obama unpatriotic for predicting exactly what happened during these wars.
Leave and let them do what they do best --- KILL EACH OTHER.
Rape children and set women on fire (where ya at on THAT, oh champion of women, hillary??) of course, is in their program, but killing other muslims is their forte.
I say, let 'em rock!!
Leave behinds lots of guns and bullets and literature implicating muslims in heresy, collaboration, and sex.
Sit back and watch the fun roll on for DECADES.
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