Measuring Success

Bill Sweetman's Commander's Intent commentary “Boot-Centric Warfare” (AW&ST April 1/8, p. 12), states that “Iraq and Afghanistan can be called a strategic success.” In those wars, roughly 5,000 Americans have died in combat and 42,000 have been wounded. The direct cost of those wars is $1.4 trillion...

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