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Casualty figures
I use antiwar.com, they list all of the attacks that happen every day in Iraq, along with casualty numbers, so I use that. I use the numbers from Salahadin and Diyala provinces because the operation is mainly focused there. (Top Gun) 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Basra (2008)
Just for your information, I moved the section post-operation clashes into the article Iraq Spring Fighting of 2008. The battle should only be about the March 25 - March 31 events. -- TheFE ARgod (Ч) 10:45, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Adoption offer
I would be happy to adopt you! Just let me know. Cheers! - Diligent Terrier (and friends) 20:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Basra operation
Looks like you're the expert here. Just let me quote the relevant sections from Jane's Defence Weekly (I've stuck the reference in as you probably saw), and then please rewrite my edits as you see fit:

[23/24 March] '...particularly strong resistance was encountered within residential areas held by the Jaish al-Mahdi militia associated with Moqtada al-Sadr. Most of these areas were secured by Iraqi Army forces involved in securing a base of operations in the east of the city, anchored on Basra palace. In one case, however, roadside bombings and intense urban hit and run ops undertaken by experienced militia fighters caused an Iraqi Army battalion to lose cohesion during the initial day of fighting on 25 March. The unit in question, an element of the IA's 52nd Brigade (14th Division) had only recently graduated from the Besmeya training facility on 13 February. Raised from Basra recruits, the battalion proved unwilling to fight other Baswaris and disbanded with the loss of considerable numbers of Humvees, many of which were later recovered while dozens of others were burnt. The battalion commander and deputy commander were later relieved.' ... 'A set of experienced IA brigades tightened the cordon around key Jaish al-Mahdi neighbourhoods in western Baghdad such as Qarmat Ali, Qibla, Hayanniyah, Tamininyah, Khamsa Meel and Jumhuriya. These included the IA 14th Brigade (4th Division): a motorised unit of Kurdish and Arab personnel with a readiness ranking of C1 - the highest possible'.

That was mainly extra info I though you might like to have. This is the text of the 9 Div paragraph, immediately following: 'Alongside this unit were brigade-sized formations of Iraq's elite formations: the 1st and 9th divisions. The 3rd Brigade (9th Division), a motorised unit, was one of the first post-Saddam Iraqi units formed and is considered an elite quick-reaction force unit. The 35th Brigade (9th Division) is a tank formation with two battalions of reconditioned T-55 MBTs and BMP-1 IFVs plus a further battalion of motorised infantry deployed to Basra.' (JDW 23 April 2008, p.28)

Hope that helps in getting things straight. Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 05:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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Intellibeing's edit on War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Hello, please correct me if I'm wrong. He removed sourced content calling it POV when it scarcely is. I reverted. Ultra! 09:21, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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user:Hisham 5ZX
..should be paid attention to. Articles such as Dulaim are being frequently vandalised by him. After being blocked, his sockpuppet is resuming the same editing pattern. I see that you have been helping in reverting him and that is really admirable. Cheers mate! &Lambda;ua&int; Wi  se  (Operibus anteire) 10:38, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
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 * Hello!! Your opinion  here will be very appreciated.
 * Cheers mate! &Lambda;ua&int;  Wi  se  (Operibus anteire) 11:17, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

On "battles"
Hi Lawrence,

The average reader of Wikipedia does not need to be an expert on Soviet terminology to deal with the article titles since they are in English. Keep in mind that most people who access article on the Eastern Front are probably either already somewhat familiar with the subject, or are desiring to learn more, and are probably not expecting to find themselves in "Kansas" if you know what I mean.

However, the use of the word "battle" is what I consider a propaganda term, since a "battle" does not tell the reader what happened, but only where. Battle, as a military term is quite ambiguous, and you will not find many military personnel using the term in an operational setting, that is when the military operations are being planned and executed.

I will break the Battle of Basra for you down to specifics to show how the use of "battle" has been used in the media to obscure the information.

A "battle" is in fact considered a term of combat at the operational level of war, that is one where combat occurs above the tactical level of a division, but below the strategic level of an Army (US formation, not US Army or Iraqi Army). The information in the Battle of Basra says that some 30,000 Iraqi forces engaged about 16,000 Mahdi Army personnel. 30,000 troops are about two infantry divisions in strength. For a conduct of offensive operations the accepted conventional numeric superiority required by planner is at least 3:1. In the urban environment the ratio is likely to be required higher, maybe 4-5:1. This is largely known from the Soviet-German experiences during the Second World War. So, for a start we have under strength operation for the Iraqi Army as a whole. I then look at the order of battle. This gives five divisions with eight brigades, or somewhat less than two brigades per division. The usual US Army divisional strength is three brigades. What this means to me is that in fact there are four divisions participating, but all are at 50% strength in terms of personnel, and are at 2/3s of their expected force structure. In the US Army such divisions would have been considered to have fallen below combat readiness and would be withdrawn from combat operations if possible. However, for assured success, the Iraqis should have ad a minimum of 16K x 4(5)=64K(80) troops or four to five full strength infantry divisions. This immediately tells me that the operation was forced on the Iraqis, and that they were not ready for it by a long shot. The forces on the offensive need numerical superiority because they tend to suffer heavier casualties, but the heavier casualty toll was taken by the Mahdi Army, so I must assume that they were on the offensive, so conducting a very aggressive defensive operation. The ratio of deserters to killed and wounded by Iraqis is 2:1 which definitely suggests poor morale, and this coupled with under strength units suggests recruitment issues reported last year were not resolved.

Now lets consider other implications of the term battle here. Battle of Basra suggests a big combat engagement for an entire major city. However, nothing can be further from the truth. Firstly only a sector, or some sectors Basra were contested. Secondly it is not possible to conduct one "battle" in urban operations. What happens is that the city is divided into sectors and allocated to specific units so no friendly fire occurs due to misidentification of personnel in often confused terrain. For this reason urban combats are almost always tactical, or a number of simultaneous combat engagements. Given the order of battle, I would say that possibly the Army brigadeswould have been deployed for conducting the combat operations while, half the Iraqi forces, the security units, conducting security cordon operations around the combat area to prevent entry into combat area of any Mahdi supporters. Given the size of the Iraqi brigades, what we have therefore is not a grand "Battle of Basra", because even motorised infantry units devote as much as 30% of their personnel to combat service support functions. Of the remaining 10K, the about 20 battalions would have conducted tactical engagements, each of about 5-700 Iraqi troops, in their sectors, probably with not insignificant command and control difficulties for their first operation of the type which apparently went quite bad, and eventually succeeded only because the Mahdi were on the offensive and "ran out of steam". And this despite US and British air and artillery support.

So, this is why I don't like using "battle". Same goes for "invasion".

Firstly note the disparity in casualties between US and Iraqi forces. Given they were the aggressors, the offensive nature of the US troops stands out like a sore thumb.
 * Second Battle of Fallujah

Its a bit confusing for the ordinary person to tell what was there, but in urban combat only infantry do the real fighting, all other units being combat support. The funny part is that the two regimental combat teams are in fact pretty much equivalent to good sized brigades or full regiments with three infantry battalions (one mech), while the two brigades are essentially two infantry battalions probably being used as either reserves or sector fill-ins. The Iraqi forces constitute a single brigade. Again, this is an urban combat, so eventually a tactical one. Effectively three brigades are involved, which is a full division, which in scale of combat terms means the upper limit of a tactical deployment. As far as "battles" go, it was probably half the size of the Basra, but significantly more intense because of the more aggressive US troops being used.

The appellation of "second" is funny because unlike field battles, urban battles generally follow same processes if the terrain is not taken the first time. There is little scope to change anything because the terrain is the same, so the more appropriate name would have been "first battle replayed". The interesting bit is that the First battle of Fallujah lists an entire Marine Division where as in fact it was five infantry battalions assuming use of Combat Engineer Battalions in infantry roles. A full Marine Division has three regiments of four battalions each for a total of 12. So what we have are elements of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade (reinforced). Again, the use of battle together with the city name is meant to give the impression of a major combat, however what occurred was five tactical engagements in their respective sectors.

As you can see the term "battle" does not really allow the innocent bystander to tell the difference between tactical engagements and major historical operations such as the Battle of the Bulge. Its called misinformation. Invasion has same connotation since it does not carry any inherent information aside from assumption of an offensive.

Use of code names such as Operation Phantom Fury is mandated by military operational security, and removes all innate information from the title of the operation, so neither the scale or posture are known.

The Battle of Wanat was only a politically strategic "victory". In military terms it was an action, i.e. a small tactical combat that would have been called a skirmish 100 years ago. The media made more of it than it was worth, despite the casualties, or because of the casualties given Western sensitivity to them in the 21st century. Note the allied commander was 1st Lt. Jonathan P. Brostrom, i.e. a platoon commander! This is the lowest field rank of an officer. That his platoon withstood an attack by even 200 assailants, never mind 600, says much about the combat skills of the Allied troops involved because they were outnumbered by factors of 3-8.5:1, the correct factors for conducting offensives as you may recall from the start of this reply. Militarily, it was an overwhelming allied victory that showed even an Allied platoon commanded by a brand new Lt was capable of withstanding an assault by a better part of two companies or even a battalion of Taliban. Yet again, the word "battle" does not convey any of this to the reader--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 14:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Military Barnstar
I would like to present you the Military Barnstar in recognition of your work on the Iraq War. Keep up the good work! Ndunruh (talk) 19:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Dulaim
Hey, could you take a look at this article and see if it should be deleted or what should be severely truncated. It was created by the now-banned POV edit-warrior Hisham whom you have encounted.

I thought about just deleting the page, then I thought about just truncating it to the single line "Dulaim is an Arab tribe", but the introduction seemed to have some salvageable statements. Anyway, do what you will, if you want. —Centrx→talk • 23:27, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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Percy Scott
The B-class assesment you've just given this seems very generous, there are whole paragraphs without inline citations (which I was about to address). I think yo uneed to be a little tougher, I'm goign to relist at requests for assessments to get a bit more input. David Underdown (talk) 09:15, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
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Iraq War infoboxes.
Thanks for the message, I like your ideas. It seems the Iraq War pages rather cluttered and unorganized at the moment. IMO, it would help to illustrate any proposed re-organization with a flow chart or some other visual aid.WDW Megaraptor (talk) 01:43, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Article Assessment
When you assessed the "B" rating of the Battle of North Point article, it included a large amount of copyrighted text. I've reverted that article to a point before such text was added. Is there a means by which to have the article reassessed? &mdash;ADavidB 12:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

re: 2/5 Independent Company
Hi Lawrence, The article is B-class now, but to reach A-class all its current sections would need to be expanded so that it more fully covers the unit and its history. It's on the right track, but needs a fair bit more work. The military history project's A class and GA criteria are explained at: WikiProject Military history/Assessment and there's a showcase of A-class articles at WikiProject Military history which may be of interest. I hope that helps. Nick Dowling (talk) 11:07, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Battle of Ramadi assessment
I declined B-class on the article for two reasons: there are a few cn tags that indicate material on the page either has been challenged or will be challenged in the future, thus making the article unstable, and because I would like to see you reformat your references with citations templates. In the case of the latter, the citation templates will make it easier for the article to go above B-class ranking, which will mean one less thing to worry about should you or someone else decide to take the article to GA, A, or FA class. TomStar81 (Talk) 12:40, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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Battle of Ramadi
Listen I have a proposition. The 2006 Battle of Ramadi was clearly a lost battle as far the Marine corps was concerned, as they themselves admitted. The situation in the city was clear as day by the end of November, the insurgents were the ones in control. Now, I admitt the subsequent operations starting since early December, with the arrival of the Marine reserve force, and ending by mid-2007, most probably with the battle of Donkey Island, with the clearing of the city of insurgent forces. So here is my proposition, start another article, called Battle of Ramadi (2007). This would be the Third Battle of Ramadi. It should be distinguished from this previous one. The Third Battle practicly started when the Awakening Councils came into the fight, which didn't happen before December. Like in World War Two, you had, I think five consecutive battles for Harkov, but they are all recognised ass different battles and not just one. So again, I propose starting another article. And I think that most of the things you have already written in the Aftermath section of Battle of Ramadi (2006) could be used as a bases for the new article, excluding the Devlin report section. So, what do you say? I have already stated this same thing at the discussion you started at Wiki Military history project. Let me know what you think. Bye! Guyver85 (talk) 18:39, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Heading over now. Regards. Woody (talk) 22:07, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Listen, for some reason you are very hostile towards me, I donn't know why, let's just calm down and find a compromise here without edit waring, buddy. OK? First of all there is no need for your removal of the section about the November offensive, it has been sourced by the article written by the Times correspondent. In any case the incident needs to be mentioned because it was notable at the time for the reports of mass civilian deaths claimed to have been inflicted by the Marines. If you do not think the given reference is enough place the [citation needed] tag but don't remove the whole section. And please don't try to tell me something like that it has no place in a Wikipedia article as some insurgent propaganda, for one it's not propaganda if it was reported by a Times correspondent, unless the Times now works for Al-Qaeda. And secondly the incident I think has been described pretty NPOV. So please don't remove the November offensive section anymore, I ask you nicely. Now back to our problem of the result of the battle. You have a problem that the Marines said the battle was lost in August while the date says the battle lasted until November, I can easily put the Devlin report as a reference for the result, which would confirm that the battle was admittedly by the Marines lost at least as late as September. Now listen my earlier proposal still stands, if you realy wanted to know, I was already thinking for some time now to start a new article about the final battle for Ramadi in which the Marines finaly took the city in 2007, but only with the Help of the Salvation council. I will do it if you agree. If you have a problem with the name how about Battle of Ramadi (2006-2007). I am not trying to mislead anyone, but trying to make a point that these are two different battles in the overall strugle for the city. And also I am not trying to conduct content forking. I am of the opinion this last battle started with the formation of the Salvation councils, but they didn't become that much active in Ramadi up until late November, early December. Also in late November, early December, were the Marine reinforcements sent into Ramadi and the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division arrived in Ramadi as late as January 2007 and conducted their own offensive which ultimately, in alliance with the Salvation councils, defeated the insurgents. Please, be reasonable, I am not trying to represent this falsely and mislead the readers. I am a realist. If you want it your way then in that case there were no two battles for Fallujah but just the one and we should then merge the two articles on two battles of Fallujah into one. Also my example of the battle of Harkov, there were five or six battles of Harkov that came one after the other in a short span of only a few months, but they were not just one battle. I think you get my point, so give me a chance and I will do an article about the final fall of the city to the Marines and the Salvation Councils, and the date of that battle would be put as November 18, 2006 (day the first units of the Marine reinforcements arrive) - July 1, 2007 (day after the battle of Donkey Island). I put the end date as the day after the battle of Donkey Island because after the battle of Donkey Island there were no attacks in the city for full 80 days, which showed the insurgents had finally been defeated. So, what do you say, c'mon. I realy think it will look great, if you say OK I will do it first thing tomorrow.Guyver85 (talk) 22:27, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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Battle of Ramadi copyviolation and Check user request
First of all, I have rewritten the section on the November incident that you requested because trully it was a copy-paste violation. Somebody who wrote that paragraph copy-pasted it from the given reference. I found the reference because you requested a reference be given for that section. You said that it had to be rewritten, so I have changed the text a little but not that much as to change the story. If you think it should be changed a bit more change it.

Now to other matters, your accusation that I am User Top Gun and User 89.216.235.26. Yes, I saw your request to check up on me. And I will give you an answer. Yes I am 89.216.235.26. I occasionaly make an edit without signing in because I forget sometime so my edit is registered as being made by 89.216.235.26. Next item. No, I am not user Top Gun, if you must know user Top Gun is a friend of mine, and after he was blocked indefinetly he asked me to continue his work on the lists of Iraqi insurgent and security forces fatalitie reports and Afghan security forces fatalitie reports. But as I started updating those articles for him I got hooked on Wikipedia and decided to continue editing it on my own. Hope that clears it up. By the way that was low to try and shut me up on Battle of Ramadi (2006) by trying to block me. I fought you said we will talk about this. I will await your answer at my talk page.Guyver85 (talk) 10:24, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't think we can find any more sources on that incident because the only news agency that was reporting and researching those reported killings was the L.A. Times, and I was lucky that I found those references that I found because the L.A. Times's articles are all now dead links.Guyver85 (talk) 13:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

OK you don't want to accept my compromise solution, so I will give you another one and I ask you please to accept it. Let's start TWO new articles. One will be the already proposed Battle of Ramadi (2006-2007), which will cover the fighting from the coming of the reserve force until the battle of Donkey Island. The other article, and I think you will acept this one, is 2004-2007 Ramadi campaign. This article will cover the battle of 2004, the intermission period of 2005, the battle of 2006 and the battle of the period from end of 2006 until mid-2007. It will have links to those battles which will be separate articles. Something like Iraq Spring Fighting of 2004 and 2008. So what do you say? You agree?Guyver85 (talk) 13:52, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

He, he, you twisted my words, when I said Battle of Ramadi (2006-2007) I ment as a third battle from December 2006 to July 2007, starting after the reinforcements and the pro-tribal militias went in, but... I give up, extend the article to include the fighting after the reinforcements and Salvation councils came into the battle. But I still think that it is wrong and should be a third battle. You are a very, very, stuborn and uncompromising man. Don't bother to copy my statement to the discussion page of the article because I already have stated this same thing at the discussion page.Guyver85 (talk) 02:07, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

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Al Anbar campaign
Check this out Al Anbar campaign. I managed to fix something up on the bases of what we were discussing before. What do you think?Guyver85 (talk) 17:06, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I didn't put a lot of references because I linked the sections of the article to other articles which hold the references.Guyver85 (talk) 00:09, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hisham
I am watching that article as well as a number of others who are popular destinations for Hisham. The check user confirmed another sock puppet of him, but there was no comment regarding the IP. I found that odd since I used IP geolocation and compared the suspected IP with those who are known to be used by Hisham, here is what I got:

1. IP: 217.132.4.166 in TEL AVIV, 32.067/ 34.767

2. IP: 217.132.135.61 in TEL AVIV, 32.067/ 34.767

3. IP: 77.125.89.22 in TEL AVIV, 32.067/ 34.767

4. IP: 77.125.8.158 in TEL AVIV, 32.067/ 34.767

Interesting, wouldn't you say? In fact, what really surprises me is how can someone in Israel know so much about local tribes in Iraq and other info that ordinary Iraqis themselves might not know.

Cheers mate!

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SOFA
Hi. A press conference of the transcript may be found here ("President Bush and Iraq Prime Minister Maliki Sign the Strategic Framework Agreement and Security Agreement" in which Bush says:"Okay, everybody calm down for a minute. First of all thank you for apologizing on behalf of the Iraqi people. It doesn't bother me. And if you want some -- if you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw. (Laughter.) Thank you for your concern, do not worry about it." Given that the press conference was about the signing of the SOFA, and that the event has generated wide coverage, I think it might be appropriate for the article. Thoughts?--70.224.16.81 (talk) 03:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

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I have to work on a greater variety of sources but I can't see how I can fix the issue about the relative weight for you, without chaning the weight of the writers on Miller.  YellowMonkey  ( click here to vote for world cycling's #1 model! ) 06:36, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for sorting out the B-class parameters. I'm afraid I forgot to do it. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:14, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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Accusation
Who are you? Listen Lawrencema, I have no idea who you are now and who Top Gun is, and if you mean the lists of victims of war than yes I maintain some of them. Currently I update Afghan insurgent and security forces casualties and update the Iraqi insurgent and security forces casualties since nobody else does them and that I only do every 15 days or so, you can check it in the edit history, some of those edits I went and not edited for more than a month even. And as far as I can see the last user who updated those two articles before me was some guy named Guyver, he was doing it every posible day, he stoped I don't know why. I started editing Coalition casualties in Afghanistan only from January I think. And what timeframes and results of conflicts are you talking about?BobaFett85 (talk) 10:05, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

American Forces casualties in the war in Afghanistan
Response to your comment of references for the figures, I did provide them in the article Coalition casualties in Afghanistan, I put references, both icasualties.org and DoD. I stated that 608 soldiers were reported killed (608 names on icasualties.org, all confirmed by DoD) but also noted that the number is higher than the one given by DoD. If you want I can put the DoD's number also and so we state the number of dead is between 601 and 608? But currently I think you should consider my compromise proposole about listing the incidents of deaths of soldiers like in List of insurgent fatality reports in Iraq. We don't list the names of soldiers so it wouldn't be in violation of the Memorial rule. What do you think?BobaFett85 (talk) 11:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

What you just said on my talk page. That's exactly what I have been proposing to do. Replace the names with incidents and numbers. No name, no rank, or anything like that. So in that case it wouldn't be a Memorial. I would gladly do just that and I am ready to start on the work tonight, but the problem is I can't talk Nick into it. There is no point in me doing the reconstruction of the article if it is just deleted again because of the current nomination. The current nomination has to be withdrawn, Nick doesn't want to accept this compromise.BobaFett85 (talk) 11:14, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I totaly agree with you. If everybody agreed I will delete the list tonight and replace it with a table with numbers of deaths by province and country. I will replace it tonight so I hope the AdF nomination will be withdrawn.BobaFett85 (talk) 11:26, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I think the DoD hasn't got a list. Only numbers. Both CNN and icasualties count Iraq only after March 19, and both CNN and icasualties have put on their Afghan list those killed before March 19 in Kuwait, Bahrain, etc.BobaFett85 (talk) 11:46, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I have reorganised a bit more the article so there are two sections, one for the DoD number and one for the icasualties number. But I still think that Nick's comment that icasualties is not reliable is unfounded since here on Wikipedia iCasualties.org has been accepted as notable, like it says The website is considered an "authoritative" record of MNF casualties in Iraq and has been cited by, among others, the BBC, Voice of America, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Like I said all of the major news outlets that we use as sources here on Wikipedia use icasualties as their own source. So in essence icasualties is the king of sources in this specific field.

As for the concern what the website's sources are, like it says here on Wikipedia itself The website compiles information on casualties incurred by the Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan using news reports and press releases from the U.S. Department of Defense, CENTCOM, the MNF, and the British Ministry of Defence.BobaFett85 (talk) 03:06, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

How it would look like
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As of March 27 2009, 635 U.S. servicemen have been killed in the War in Afghanistan. Of this number, 451 have died in hostile action and 184 in non-hostile incidents. Included in these numbers are four CIA operatives that were killed in Afghanistan, two in an ambush, one in a prison uprising in November 2001, and one in an accident. One other CIA operative was killed in a vehicle accident in Kazakhstan. A civilian DoD employee was also killed in action while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Of the American deaths, 608* have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, while 27 died in: Kuwait, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Arabian sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, while supporting operations in Afghanistan.

As of March 17, 2009, 2,737 American soldiers have been wounded in action in Afghanistan, with 1,770 not returning to duty.

''Note: The number 608 is based on the list of names provided by icasualties.org. It should be noted this number is by seven higher than the DoD's officialy stated number of deaths, even though all of the names listed at icasualties.org were confirmed by the DoD.''

Fatalities
''Note: These numbers were provided by icasualties.org. To confirm the numbers are correct go to and use the filter to show the exact number of deaths per country of death. Following the use of the filter in the bottom left corner is the number of names listed per country of death.''

''It should also be noted that four deaths have been included in this table that are not on icasualties.org's list but were confirmed to be related to the war in Afghanistan. Those were the deaths of: the Civilian DoD employee, a CIA operative in Khazakhstan, a sailor lost in the Indian ocean and a soldier who was on leave from her unit in the United States.''

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