Berman: U.S. casualties in Afghanistan worrisome but expected as NATO challenges insurgents
San Diego Union-Tribune quotes IGCC research director, Eli Berman
07/31/2010
Gretel C. Kovach,
The San Diego Union-Tribune
The U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan passed a grim milestone Friday, when the deaths of several service members made July the deadliest month for American troops in the nine-year war.
At least 66 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan in July, with one day left in the month. June had marked the war’s previous high with 60 deaths. Overall, NATO fatalities stand at 89 in July, below the June total of 102 — the deadliest monthly tally by far for the international military coalition since the war began in 2001.
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Professor Eli Berman's research interests include economic development and conflict, the economics of religion, labor economics, technological change, economic demography, and applied econometrics. Recent grants from the National Science Foundation (2002 and 2005) have enabled him to look closely at relationships between religion and fertility from an economic standpoint.
