{"id":12780,"date":"2011-08-26T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12780"},"modified":"2011-08-26T00:34:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T05:34:57","slug":"numbers-on-us-contributions-to-libyan-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/26\/numbers-on-us-contributions-to-libyan-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers on US Contributions to Libyan Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Stars and Stripes <\/em>published a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/u-s-efforts-in-libya-by-the-numbers-1.152968\">by the numbers<\/a>&#8221; of the US efforts to support the rebels in Libya.\u00a0 Among the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>19,877 total sorties (5,357 U.S. sorties)<\/li>\n<li>262 U.S. strike sorties that dropped ordnance<\/li>\n<li>101 predator drone strikes<\/li>\n<li>$896 million in total cost to the U.S. (through July 31)<\/li>\n<li>$222 million in U.S. arms and fuel sales to participating allies<\/li>\n<li>$12.5 million in non-lethal U.S. aid (food, medical supplies, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>120,000 Halal ready-to-eat meals (delivered to Benghazi in May)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems the US military was accommodating even to the (at least perceived) religious needs of the rebels in Libya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes published a &#8220;by the numbers&#8221; of the US efforts to support the rebels in Libya.\u00a0 Among the list: 19,877 total sorties (5,357 U.S. sorties) 262 U.S. strike sorties that dropped ordnance 101 predator drone strikes $896 million in total cost to the U.S. (through July 31) $222 million in U.S. arms and fuel sales to participating [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2135,44,1589,2,2134,10,171],"class_list":["post-12780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-halal","tag-islam","tag-libya","tag-military","tag-mre","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}