DoD Op Enduring Freedom Casualty update as of 10am 11th Dec 2009

As of November 23, 2009, there have been 1,464 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of ongoing coalition operations (Operation Enduring Freedom and ISAF) since the invasion in 2001.
Compared to Civilian causalities:

• direct deaths: at least 9,260 - 12,057
• indirect deaths: 3,200 - 20,000
• direct & indirect deaths: 12,460 - 32,057
• indirect deaths after initial invasion:n/a
• The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) recorded 1,500 Afghan civilian deaths between January 1 and August 31, 2009, representing an increase of 31% over the same period in 2008, when 1,145 civilians were killed. In 135 (9%) of the deaths.
  

The highlight below is an estimate, Wikepedia has it broken down even more.

When you compare these figures to the casualities during the Russian war in Afghanistan, it makes you wonder exactly how many losses are going to be too many and they get out.

Maybe for both sides sake.

"After the war ended, the Soviet Union published figures of dead Soviet soldiers: the total was 13,836 men, an average of 1,512 men a year. According to updated figures, the Soviet army lost 14,427, the KGB lost 576, with 28 people dead and missing.

Over 1 million Afghans were killed. 5 million Afghans fled to Pakistan and Iran, 1/3 of the prewar population of the country. Another 2 million Afghans were displaced within the country. In the 1980s, one out of two refugees in the world was an Afghan.

Along with fatalities were 1.2 million Afghans disabled (mujahideen, government soldiers and noncombatants) and 3 million maimed or wounded (primarily noncombatants)"

Source: Wikipedia.org

Thank you for the updated info stejeb.  You pose a serious and responsible question.

Thanks for commenting Roy.  I have estimates of Taliban killings highlighted above, Hugh A asked the same question.

ty for keeping us informed

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Huge Surge Logistics Bill Coming -- DoD Buzz

President Obama has com­mit­ted to a major new phase of the Afghan cam­paign. With the sub­stan­tial mis­sion expan­sion comes a sig­nif­i­cant demand for new resources to deal with the most ignored part of oper­a­tions to the out­sider, logis­tics and sus­tain­ment costs.

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Thanks for the update, ACP.

You're very welcome

Gates reiterated his support for President Barack Obama’s new strategy, and said he expects the new troop commitment to look a lot like the 2007 surge in Iraq and, at least initially, to encounter the same challenges.

He emphasized that the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan planned to begin in July 2011 doesn’t mean the mission will end. The drawdown will be gradual and based on conditions on the ground, just as it has been in Iraq, he told the group.

“We don’t want to be there one day longer than we have to be,” Gates said, a point he said he made clear during his visit to Kabul earlier this week. “We have no desire to be an occupying force,” he said.