CNSNews.com - 37 Percent of All U.S. Deaths in Nearly Nine-Year-Long Afghan War Have Occurred Since Obama’s Troop Surge

CNSNews.com - 37 Percent of All U.S. Deaths in Nearly Nine-Year-Long Afghan War Have Occurred Since Obama’s Troop Surge

(CNSNews.com) - More than a third of all U.S. casualties in the now nearly nine-year-long war in Afghanistan have occurred since May 15 of last year, the day when the first major wave of President Barack Obama’s troop surge arrived in that country.

The 356 U.S. military personnel who have died in Afghanistan since May 15, 2009, according to a CNSNews.com database of Afghanistan war casualties, account for 37 percent of the total of 968 U.S. deaths recorded through May 5, 2010. Of these 968 deaths, 817 were combat-related.