The US Military Doesn't Want To Tell Us How Many Bombs It Drops

We still don't know how many people are killed every year by US airstrikes around the world, especially in Muslim-majority countries. But, as has been confirmed now, we also don't know how many airstrikes the US military conducts annually. 

A recent Military Times investigation revealed that thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have gone unreported. Just in Afghanistan, at least 456 airstrikes were not recorded.  

The US army is summarising and publishing its bombings each month. However, just for countries with which the US is officially at war (like the mentioned ones). In this context, it's very concerning that the data has been incomplete since the very beginning of the so called War on Terror in 2001. 

In my own experience, even journalists who were critical of US foreign policy tended to believe the official numbers. Meanwhile, many local experts and analysts from Afghanistan often told me that they didn't believe the official records. They pointed out that the number of conducted airstrikes might be much higher.