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America is currently at "war" via OCO in 7 nations (3 more pending), combat troops are stationed in 15, we have bases in 44, working proxies in 58 and do FID just about anywhere that will have us and provide aid to 96% of nations. stateoig.gov/system/files/f… 
An excellent visual treatise on lack of leadership. multimedia.scmp.com/news/china/art…
About $2.1 million per soldier/yr : "The United States has about 14,000 troops in Afghanistan. About 8,400 are training Afghan security forces, the rest conducting counterterrorism missions. Another 8,500 international troops are training Afghan forces." nytimes.com/2019/05/01/wor…
But on the battlefield when it comes to the Afghan soldier, the taliban outspend us on monthly pay, and ISIS outspends the talibs who make money from locals and taxes. A much cleaner model to fight forever wars. kpsrl.org/sites/default/…
Attacks up 19%, Afghan mil casualties up 31%, Civcas up, 70% of Afghan budget is foreign donors. Over 40% of the students sent to train as pilots in the US went AWOL. All kinds of pain and misery in the new SIGAR report on Afghanistan sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyr…
