Author: Justin Podur

[More analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I tried searching the database for any of these keywords: narc, opium, heroin, drug, poppy. It came up with 800 hits, which look like this:

Note the concentration in the south (Hilmand) and the east.

Now let’s zoom in on one of the areas, one the clusters of points you see in the south:

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[More analysis of Wikileaks’s Afghan War Diary]

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Searching on CDN in Afghanistan instead of CF, which means Coalition Forces, gives a much more modest picture of Canadian Forces around Kandahar. Apologies for the error. Incidents are in red, roads in grey.

[More analysis of the Afghan War Diary]

Analyzing NATO/US casualties (“Friendly Killed In Action” or FriendlyKIA) by type of unit gives the following. Coalition Forces (CF) casualties have more wounded than killed.

TypeOfUnit Data

(empty) Sum – FriendlyKIA 28
Sum – FriendlyWIA 29

ACM Sum – FriendlyKIA 6
Sum – FriendlyWIA 15

ANSF Sum – FriendlyKIA 20
Sum – FriendlyWIA 23

ANSF / CF Sum – FriendlyKIA 1
Sum – FriendlyWIA 0

CF Sum – FriendlyKIA 782
Sum – FriendlyWIA 983

CF / ANSF Sum – FriendlyKIA 17
Sum – FriendlyWIA 15

CIV Sum – FriendlyKIA 14
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[More analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]

I was looking at situations where Enemy Killed in Action was greater than 0, which gave 3729 incidents. I expect that if there are more civilian deaths than are encoded in the database, they are here, as armed people tend to classify those they kill as combatants, sometimes when they are not. But let’s take the data for what it says, and say that who they say were combatants are, for now.

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Looking at only incidents where CivilianKIA was greater than 0, I got 1458 events. In OpenOffice Calc (after downloading the convert text-to-numbers extension) I used DataPilot to divide these incidents

by Type:

Air Mission 2
Criminal Event 99
Enemy 1
Enemy Action 716
Explosive Hazard 2650
Friendly Action 162
Friendly Fire 34
Non-Combat Event 309
Other 19
Suspicious Incident 2
Total Result 3994

And by Category:

Accident 120
Ambush 62
ANA-on-ANP 1
ANP Training 12
Arrest 1
Arson 2
ARTY 4
Assassination 38
ATTACK 94
BLUE-GREEN 6
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[ERROR – THIS MAP SHOWS CF OR COALITION FORCES. A MAP OF CANADIAN FORCES ENGAGEMENTS WILL FOLLOW… APOLOGIES FOR THE FAILURE TO CHECK THE ACRONYMS]

I’ve started to analyze the incredible Afghan War Diary that was published by Wikileaks.

What follows is a bit of nerdiness, in case you want to try this at home.

Continue reading “CF in Afghanistan – a map”