The Guardian posted a bunch of data about IED explosions in Afghanistan from the WikiLeaks data that just came out. Drew Conway took a look at it and it looked pretty similar to the plots that I made the other day.
So here’s what I wanted to see: what percentage of the deaths/injuries reported were from friendly fire? It looks like we started off by killing ourselves a whole lot, and then the balance came back down a bit.
Of course, that could be either from less friendly fire or more enemy fire. It seems, unfortunately, to be the later. Here’s a breakdown of the friendly/enemy-caused deaths and injuries by date (each bar is 30 days) and unit type.
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