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NATION AT WAR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| start and end date of the afgan war | September 9, 2001 - August 30, 2021 |
| military operation names for afgan war | Operation enduring freedom ( combat and driving out the bad people) and operation freedom’s sentinel ( training up Afghan army and withdrawing our forces) |
| four main goals of afgan war | Dismantle Al-Qaeda Remove the Taliban Prevent future attacks, make sure the country can never again be used as a base for global terrorism Establish democracy and train the Afghan national defense and security forces (ANDSF) |
| al qaeda mean | Means student and they are the Pashtun islamic fundamentalist gov that has ruled afghanistan twice and are currently |
| locations of the major combat operations for us military personnel | Helmand, Kandahar, Kabul, Kunar, Pakistan,Tora Bora mountain range |
| operations neptune spear, what was it, who participated, where was it, major outcome | The operation aimed at hunting down Bin Laden Special opps int the US military (mostly Seals) Abbottabad, Pakistan They successfully killed Bin Laden + one of his adult sons+ a couple accomplaces, Al qaeda would start to crumble |
| total deaths and wounded for operations enduring freedom, | KIA - 2,350 WIA - 20,149 |
| total deaths and wounded for operations freedom sentinel | OFS KIA - 109 WIA - 620 |
| total deaths and wounded operation iraqi freedom | KIA - 4,419 WIA - 21, 993 |
| how post 9/11 veterans before them | served much longer tours of duty, had higher levels of exposure to combat, and suffered much higher rates of disability, also over half of them were deployed more than once |
| how do suicide rates of this veteran populations compare to their KIA rates from other war | At least 4 times more of them died by suicide than in combat 30,177 people |