{"id":2597,"date":"2005-12-31T16:33:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-31T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T23:33:10","slug":"afghanistan-casualties-doubled-in-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/31\/afghanistan-casualties-doubled-in-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Casualties Doubled in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, it appears that the number of American troops killed in Afghanistan this past year  have just about doubled the casualty rate of <b>each<\/b> of the preceding years.  Troop deaths of other coalition members are also at their all time highest level.   There are currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/12\/21\/afghan.rumsfeld\/\">19,000 American troops<\/a> in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>See the numbers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icasualties.org\/oef\/\">here<\/a> for Operation Enduring Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, it appears that the number of American troops killed in Afghanistan this past year have just about doubled the casualty rate of each of the preceding years. Troop deaths of other coalition members are also at their all time highest level. There are currently 19,000 American troops in Afghanistan. See the numbers here for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}