Tom Cole: “We had 2,800 deaths in 20 years of combat in Afghanistan.”

“You know, the Ukrainians have probably lost 150 or so thousand soldiers, maybe another 350 casualties on top of that. Stop and think about that. I mean We had 2,800 deaths in 20 years of combat in Afghanistan. I mean each side is losing more people in a week than we lost in 20 years in Afghanistan. So we have the benefit of learning from it.” (14:42–14:47)

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