{"id":15913,"date":"2014-10-27T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T09:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15913"},"modified":"2014-10-27T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T09:59:24","slug":"britains-intervention-in-afghanistan-the-cold-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15913","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s intervention in Afghanistan &#8211; the cold facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Britain&#8217;s combat role in Afghanistan comes to an end, some facts to ponder on concerning our involvement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Length of intervention: 13 years<\/li>\n<li>Maximum troop deployment: 10,000<\/li>\n<li>Total number who served: 140,000<\/li>\n<li>Number of British troops killed: 453<\/li>\n<li>Number of British troops wounded: 2,188<\/li>\n<li>Financial cost: \u00a337 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During this period:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of US military deaths: 2,210<\/li>\n<li>Number of Taliban killed: up to 35,000<\/li>\n<li>Number of Afghan civilians killed: estimated 21,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let is hope that it was worth it and that the Afghan army can beat or at least contain the Taliban and that the Afghan government can offer political stability and economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Britain&#8217;s combat role in Afghanistan comes to an end, some facts to ponder on concerning our involvement: Length of intervention: 13 years Maximum troop deployment: 10,000 Total number who served: 140,000 Number of British troops killed: 453 Number of British troops wounded: 2,188 Financial cost: \u00a337 billion During this period: Number of US military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15913"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15922,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913\/revisions\/15922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}