Afghanistan Body Count Strategy:Demoralize Taliban
In a departure from past practice, U.S. and Afghan commanders released data that showed they had killed 2,448 insurgents over the past eight months - a 55 percent increase from the same period last year. An additional 2,870 insurgents had been detained.
Senior U.S. military officials had previously discouraged releasing such body counts as they pushed their force to shift to a strategy that focused on protecting the population instead of killing the enemy.
Of late, commanders have placed greater emphasis on killing mid-level Taliban insurgents in an effort to cripple the group's morale.
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