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Peter Bergen says about 8,000 US contractors died in post-9/11 wars
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""One of the things I say I didn't know that 8,000 American contractors had died during the war and of course 7,000 American service members died.""
Peter Bergen says he was struck to learn that about 8,000 US contractors died in the post-9/11 wars, compared with about 7,000 US service members. He argues contractors carried out warlike activities but received far less public attention than uniformed casualties.
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