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Bigger body count: Casualties on the battlefield spiked after commanders in Afghanistan had to ensure that Taliban fighters were carrying weapons and that no civilians would be harmed before they could authorize direct fire against the enemy. (Associated Press)
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During a medevac mission by the U.S. Army's Task Force Pegasus, Marines carry a wounded comrade to a waiting helicopter. In 2011, as U.S. troops peaked at 100,000, 419 Americans were killed. In 2012, as the troop count began to decrease, the death toll fell to 319, three times what it was in 2006-2007. (Associated Press photographs)
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Troops say the bureaucracy has cost lives: Each Taliban fighter allowed to escape is one more terrorist free to attack Americans by fighting battles or planting bombs.
