{"id":1601,"date":"2008-01-15T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-01-15T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T16:55:50","slug":"the_number_is_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"The Number Is 1.6 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Pentagon&#8217;s press ops people, accessed via the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, approximately 1.6 million individual troops have served in Afghanistan and Iraq since the beginning of the war in late 01\/early 02.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t have readily available separation of those who have actually been in combat roles and those who haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll call this the &#8216;golden&#8217; number at this point. <\/p>\n<p>That makes the rate of homicide (given the NYT 121 number) 7.6\/100,000.<\/p>\n<p>See AMac&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/009981.php#c111\" target=\"browser\">analysis in the comments here<\/a> for a good framework to put on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon helps with some statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}