Outcomes and Consequences of the Afghanistan War
The Afghanistan war is an ongoing conflict, so it is hard to determine final outcomes, costs, casualties and consequences.
Cost
Taxpayers could be paying up to around $2.4 trillion by 2017 across the participating countries.
A Harvard economist named Linda Bilmes calculated that a more accurate cost of the war was in between $4-6 trillion after taking into account medical care, veterans, military replenishment, economic costs etc.
Civilians and troops
More than 26,000 civilians have died, either by direct consequences of violence such as crossfire, bombs, assassinations etc or by the breakdown of public health, infrastructure and security. Hospitals are finding it incredibly hard to keep up with the large numbers of injuries. As well as this, Afghan ministry of public health stated that 2/3 of Afghans suffer mental issues caused by the war.
There are more deaths caused indirectly, through poverty, malnutrition, poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water.
Almost 100,000 troops served in Afghanistan during the war, with many now dead, wounded or mentally affected.
Who won?
The war is still going, so there is no official result, but based on amount of deaths, control, power and who achieved their goals, the UN ISAF are viewed as winners. One of the main goals by the US and coalition forces was to remove Al-Qaeda from its power, which they did after assassinating Osama Bin Laden.
Much of the population of the countries who sent troop sand money thought that it had been unsuccessful in Afghanistan.
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Cost
Taxpayers could be paying up to around $2.4 trillion by 2017 across the participating countries.
A Harvard economist named Linda Bilmes calculated that a more accurate cost of the war was in between $4-6 trillion after taking into account medical care, veterans, military replenishment, economic costs etc.
Civilians and troops
More than 26,000 civilians have died, either by direct consequences of violence such as crossfire, bombs, assassinations etc or by the breakdown of public health, infrastructure and security. Hospitals are finding it incredibly hard to keep up with the large numbers of injuries. As well as this, Afghan ministry of public health stated that 2/3 of Afghans suffer mental issues caused by the war.
There are more deaths caused indirectly, through poverty, malnutrition, poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water.
Almost 100,000 troops served in Afghanistan during the war, with many now dead, wounded or mentally affected.
Who won?
The war is still going, so there is no official result, but based on amount of deaths, control, power and who achieved their goals, the UN ISAF are viewed as winners. One of the main goals by the US and coalition forces was to remove Al-Qaeda from its power, which they did after assassinating Osama Bin Laden.
Much of the population of the countries who sent troop sand money thought that it had been unsuccessful in Afghanistan.
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