The US Defense Department kept silent about thousands of air strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria

The Pentagon did not include in the open database information on thousands of lethal air strikes inflicted during operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, starting with 2001. The military called this state of affairs common practice. RIA News Post of the Military Times.

“Only in 2016 were not recorded in an open database of 456 airstrikes inflicted in Afghanistan. This database is maintained by the US Air Force, and it is supported by Congress, military analysts, US allies and researchers ”, - stated in the material.

The blows were delivered by helicopters and unmanned vehicles.

According to the information, the mentioned database was incomplete, starting with 2001 g, “when the war on terrorism began”.

A military source of the publication explained that the Air Force did not try to hide the number of combat sorties - this was how the air strikes were tracked in the past.

It always has been. We do not track, for example, the number of attacks made (by helicopters) Apache,

said the source.

The publication finds this attitude to statistics strange, “since the last 15 years most often in the fight against terrorist groups, the American army uses Apache helicopters”.

Comments

[V.ic]

(C) The military called this state of affairs common practice

Well, yes, because they distribute sweets and cookies there.

[210ox]

If the airstrike were successful and civilians didn’t die during it, then hide it? Hide the miscalculations and killings of innocent people .. So who is the killer, tell me? This is to the presenter of Fox News

Quote: V.ic

(C) The military called this state of affairs common practice

Well, yes, because they distribute sweets and cookies there.

[Vz.58]

Remind you how the "Soviet contingent" was withdrawn from Afghanistan? How was it ensured that it was "lossless"?

[Pete mitchell]

Vz.58 what do you mean? "Hunt for bait"? "" Contracted "areas? The 40th army was leaving and those who did not interfere with it were sleeping peacefully, and rightly so.
And these striped hatchets there are “instilling" democracy, where can success be with such methods. The children of Discovery Chanel got into anything stupid, they behave like idiots everywhere and don’t know how to get out. Bastards ..

[Barbulator]

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Quote: Pete Mitchell

The 40th army was leaving, and those who did not interfere with it slept peacefully

The limited contingent exit from Afghanistan was covered by border troops in Afghanistan. The cover took place with fights. So the words of General Gromov that there are no Soviet soldiers behind him are a little fantasy.

[Pete mitchell]

Nobody argues that not everything was smooth, but they tried to avoid victims among their own and local ones. If necessary, the road was cleared by artillery and attack aircraft. And we are looking for a number of examples of this and other approaches in history ...
I think the Americans will not be able to leave like that, they don’t know how to negotiate and betray the allies this is “the way it should be”, and the mujahideen comrades are very touchy, well, Allah Akbar is with them

[aszzz888]

The army of "democrats" in action. Essentially, killers in law.

[Aristide]

It would be the Americans who would now raise a howl, having discovered such a "practice" in Russia. And to them, like water from a goose. Do not care, you know!

[Hadis1911]

Yes, all warring countries have such a practice.

[Smog]

What kind of bombing? What do you.
They carry democracy, DEMOCRACY,

[Gormenghast]

Statistics - pseudoscience, the corrupt girl of American imperialism.

[rotmistr60]

The US Defense Department kept silent about thousands of air strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria

So there was something to be silent about. Weddings and funerals somehow do not fit into the "active" fight against terrorism.

[CYBERNINJA]

What does it mean:
fatal air strikes?
Civil, military, their military?