{"id":32027,"date":"2021-05-12T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/12\/british-troops-were-twice-as-likely-to-be-killed-in-afghanistan-as-us-forces"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:00:35","slug":"british-troops-were-twice-as-likely-to-be-killed-in-afghanistan-as-us-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32027","title":{"rendered":"British troops were twice as likely to be killed in Afghanistan as US forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Costs of War study looked at losses suffered by Nato allies over 2001-17, finding UK lost 455 lives <\/p>\n<p>British and Canadian troops were more than twice as likely to get killed in Afghanistan as their US counterparts, according to a study that looks at the scale of the sacrifice made by Nato allies over the course of the 20-year war.<\/p>\n<p>The UK also gave more to Afghanistan than the US in the form of economic and humanitarian assistance as a percentage of GDP, <a href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/files\/cow\/imce\/papers\/2021\/Davidson_AlliesCostsofWar_Final.pdf\">the study published on Wednesday<\/a> by the Costs of War project at Brown University found.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/12\/british-troops-were-twice-as-likely-to-be-killed-in-afghanistan-as-us-forces\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Costs of War study looked at losses suffered by Nato allies over 2001-17, finding UK lost 455 lives British and Canadian troops were more than twice as likely to get killed in Afghanistan as their US counterparts, according to a study that l&#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":[46,937,244,938,61,52,473,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-british-army","category-canada","category-military","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-us-military","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\/32027","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=32027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32028,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32027\/revisions\/32028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}