Those six-figure Kabul evacuation numbers veil the limits of the U.S. response

That 116,700 determine, the whole variety of evacuees who’ve left since Aug. 14, consists of individuals who had been evacuated by teams or nations apart from the U.S. army. The federal government has included what it calls “coalition” figures since Aug. 20, looping foreign-country and private-sector evacuations into the whole as a result of the U.S. army is liable for safety on the airport. It’s clear in together with these figures, sure, however with out together with coalition evacuations, the variety of U.S. army evacuations drops to someplace from 66,000 to 75,000 evacuations. (It’s not clear how lots of the evacuations that occurred earlier than Aug. 18 had been undertaken by nonmilitary operations.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/30/us-afghanistan-evacuation-numbers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics | These six-figure Kabul evacuation numbers veil the boundaries of the U.S. response