{"id":13349,"date":"2020-01-29T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jan\/28\/us-afghanistan-war-bombs-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-29T08:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T23:19:52","slug":"us-dropped-record-number-of-bombs-on-afghanistan-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13349","title":{"rendered":"US dropped record number of bombs on Afghanistan last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warplanes dropped 7,423 bombs and other munitions, the most since Pentagon began keeping track in 2006<\/p>\n<p>The US dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than any other year since the Pentagon began keeping a tally in 2006, reflecting an apparent effort to force concessions from the Taliban at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afcent.af.mil\/Portals\/82\/Documents\/Airpower%20summary\/(U)%20APPROVED%20Dec%202019%20APS%20Data.pdf?ver=2020-01-27-023439-697\">new figures<\/a> released by US central command, US warplanes dropped 7,423 bombs and other munitions on Afghanistan, a nearly eightfold increase from 2015.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jan\/28\/us-afghanistan-war-bombs-2019\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warplanes dropped 7,423 bombs and other munitions, the most since Pentagon began keeping track in 2006The US dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than any other year since the Pentagon began keeping a tally in 2006, reflecting an apparent effort t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13364,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions\/13364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}