40

90

TOTAL TROOPS DEPLOYED

JUNE ’05 19,500

JUNE ’06 23,300

JUNE ’11 111,700

JUNE ’10 95,800

JUNE ’09 59,000

JUNE ’08 31,700

JUNE ’07 24,800

59

55

50

45

40

35

30

25

20

18 yrs. old

200

150

100

50

1,419 417 92 75

Army Marine Corps Navy Air Force

Nonhostile deaths

Other hostile deaths

I.E.D.- related

SECOND 1,000

FIRST 1,000

BY AGE

TOTAL DEATHS BY BRANCH OF SERVICE

HOSTILE DEATHS BY PROVINCE

TOTAL DEATHS BY MONTH

’12

’11

’10

’09

’08

’07

’06

’05

’04

’03

’02

75

50

25

AUGUST 2012 Death toll surpasses 2,000.

JULY 20, 2008 Nearly seven years after the start of the war, the death toll reaches 500.

AUGUST 2011 Deadliest month. On Aug. 6, 30 die when a helicopter is shot down by insurgents.

DEC. 1, 2009 President Obama announces a “surge” to further increase troop levels.

MAY 18, 2010 Less than two years later, the war kills another 500, bringing the death toll to 1,000.

Circle size represents number of deaths.

More than half of the deaths occurred in the southern provinces.

The mountainous northeastern provinces were the site of intense fighting.

Of the first 1,000 deaths, 772 were hostile. That figure increased to 911 for the second 1,000.

Helmand

Kandahar

Kabul

1

11

21

35

24

64

26

212

263

23

1

70

6

5

34

1

29

11

9

32

1

4

2

6

4

4

5

Kabul

3

21

16

24

90

40

141

22

20

20

1

9

28

27

5

31

55

14

3

1

2

119

7

27

1