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Trump Troop Deployment in U.S. Climbs to 35,000 Boots on the Ground (theintercept.com)

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 29 points 1 day ago

35k is a lot.
Peak Iraq was 170k.
So, the US is at 25% of the deployment in Iraq .

Approximately 150,000 US soldiers were deployed in 2003. This number increased to its peak in 2007 of over 170,000 soldiers, three years after Bush claimed ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq on 1 May 2003.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-war-bush-twentieth-anniversary-b2302031.html