Rabi Mansur
10-07-2010, 11:13 PM
It has been estimated that the cost to kill one Taliban soldier is at least 50 million dollars.
http://http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article32304
Unbelieveable that the USA continues this insane war.
:wa:
ReplyMuslim Woman
10-12-2010, 09:20 AM
Salaam
yes , unbelieveable . Few lines :
Killing Each Taliban Soldier Costs $50 Million
Killing 20 Taliban costs $1 Billion / Killing all the Taliban would cost $1.7 Trillion
By Matthew Nasuti
The Pentagon will not tell the public what it costs to locate, target and kill a single Taliban soldier because the price-tag is so scandalously high that it makes the Taliban appear to be Super-Soldiers. As set out in this article, the estimated cost to kill each Taliban is as high as $100 million, with a conservative estimate being $50 million. A public discussion should be taking place in the United States regarding whether the Taliban have become too expensive an enemy to defeat. Each month the Pentagon generates a ream of dubious statistics designed to create the illusion of progress in Afghanistan. In response this author decided to compile his own statistics. As the goal of any war is to kill the enemy, the idea was to calculate what it actually costs to kill just one of the enemy. The obstacles encountered in generating such a statistic are formidable. The problem is that the Pentagon continues to illegally classify all negative war news and embarrassing information. Regardless, some information has been collected from independent sources. Here is what we know in summary and round numbers:
1. Taliban Field Strength: 35,000 troops
2. Taliban Killed Per Year by Coalition forces: 2,000 (best available information)
3. Pentagon Direct Costs for Afghan War for 2010: $100 billion
4. Pentagon Indirect Costs for Afghan War for 2010: $100 billion
Using the fact that 2,000 Taliban are being killed each year and that the Pentagon spends $200 billion per year on the war in Afghanistan, one simply has to divide one number into the other. That calculation reveals that $100 million is being spent to kill each Taliban soldier. In order to be conservative, the author decided to double the number of Taliban being killed each year by U.S. and NATO forces (although the likelihood of such being true is unlikely). This reduces the cost to kill each Taliban to $50 million, which is the title of this article. The final number is outrageously high regardless of how one calculates it.
To put this information another way, using the conservative estimate of $50 million to kill each Taliban: It costs the American taxpayers $1 billion to kill 20 Taliban. As the U.S. military estimates there to be 35,000 hard-core Taliban and assuming that no reinforcements and replacements will arrive from Pakistan and Iran: Just killing the existing Taliban would cost $1.75 Trillion.
ReplyRamadhan
10-12-2010, 12:34 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by
Rabi Mansur
Unbelieveable that the USA continues this insane war
This reminds of a certain ayat that roughly says
".. and they plan... but Allah is the best planner..."
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