Afghan police casualties soar
The Post’s Josh Partlow on the disproportionate death rate among Afghan police forces:
Over the past year, 1,555 Afghan policemen were killed, more than twice the number of Afghan soldiers who died in the same period, even though there are 35,000 fewer police than soldiers in the country, according to statistics provided by the U.S.-led coalition. In the same period, 474 U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan. The police death toll in June, 246 police — a rate of eight a day — was 50 percent higher than any other month in the past year.
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