"The Afghan security forces are suffering more casualties, no question about it," Lieutenant General Mark Milley said via video link from Afghanistan, according to AFP.
NATO's US-led forces assist Afghan army and police personnel to improve strategic maneuvers and avoid high casualties, said Milley, who serves as deputy commander of the US forces in Afghanistan. He added that casualties will decline as more helicopters, artillery, and mortars are introduced.
Nevertheless, the 350,000-member Afghan security force is taking "somewhere in the range of 50 to 100" deaths per week, Milley said.
"And that's not at all insignificant. That is significant. And we're paying attention to that," he added.
The highest casualty rate for American troops in the war occurred in 2010, when 500 US soldiers died.
Comment: America's own counter-insurgency forces are knocking of the Afghan security forces, thereby justifying the US presence there and also to justify increase military spending. Same picture in Iraq, where "suicide bombings" kill hundreds of people every week. All with the aim of divide and conquer.
See: Suicide Bombings - A Favourite US Counter-Insurgency Tactic
Comment: Nobel peace price laureate Obama will make sure he doesn't do anything that will hinder the US war industry aka the industrial military complex.