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RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

12/16/2025

AFGHANISTAN

The Afghan War extended from 2000 to 2021.  We lived thru it but don't really remember that much about it.  It was difficult to tell that a war was going on. I pulled up the record of casualties in that war for your benefit.  NATO forces and a whole lot of countries were invoved.

USA  2,461
UK  457
Canada  159
France  90
Germany  62
Italy  53
Poland  44
Denmark  43
Spain  35
Australia  41
Netherlands  25
Romania  26
Turkey  15
Norway  10
Other nations invoolved:  Czech Republic, Estonia, hungar, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, South Korea, and others  ~145
Total coalition forces killed:  3,621

Afghan fighters and civilian casualties are unknown but are estimated to be in the tens of thousands.

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