NATO, Afghanistan and Donald Trump
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President Trump said that NATO soldiers stayed “a little off the front lines” during the conflict. In Britain, which lost 457 soldiers in the war, the response was swift.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Against a backdrop of 90 dead Illinois soldiers during the Afghanistan War, veterans and relatives of those who lost their lives struggle with the controversial American exodus. Earlier this week, the sad and solemn journey for Marine ...
Of course those of us who served alongside the Americans in Afghanistan are going to get defensive when hearing President Trump’s harsh accusations against our forces and those of our other Nato allies.
An estimated 3,500 soldiers from NATO countries died in Afghanistan. The United States suffered the most losses in absolute terms: Nearly 2,500 U.S. service members were killed in the 20-year war. But per capita, Denmark suffered even more severe losses, burying 43 soldiers in a population, at the time, of about 5.5 million.
The United States' 20-year attempt to stand up democracy in Afghanistan descended into a cesspool of corruption and squandered as much as $29.2 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in pursuit of unrealistic goals, according to a government watchdog report ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An interpreter for U.S. troops in Afghanistan struggled for 13 years to obtain a visa to enter the U.S. The interpreter’s key advocate was an Army veteran who had ...
More than $148 billion was spent by the U.S. government in its failed attempt to build a free Afghanistan, according to the final report by the official watchdog office, whose careful documentation of waste and fraud, and its warnings of Taliban resurgence ...