Expect Up To 300-500 US Casualties A Month In Afghanistan

Retired US General Barry McCaffrey, now a professor at West Point, says we can expect hundreds of casualties a month in Afghanistan. (h/t Think Progress)

“What I want to do is signal that this thing is going to be $5 billion to $10 billion a month and 300 to 500 killed and wounded a month by next summer. That’s what we probably should expect. And that’s light casualties,” said McCaffrey, who is also president of his own consulting firm in Arlington, Va., and has conducted numerous trips to the war zones to assess the political and military challenges at hand.

As of Dec. 20, there had been 305 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan in 2009, the large majority of those due to hostile action. The number of wounded as of the same date for 2009 was 2,102, with more than half of those unable to return to duty.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.