and bones, leaving 85 dead and fear in their wake, afghan families have buried up to 70,000 policemen and soldiers, since 2001. according to a week report from brown cost cost of war project. casualty rate so high, military convention said though army could sustain it. after heading to battle day and night for 20 years, without end, the scale and speed of u.s. withdrawal delivered them into the hands of their enemies. without u.s. air support, the afghan special operations forces, america's most trusted partners were crippled. this small highly specialized force trained by u.s. and nato's relies on mobility, here out numbers and out of ammo in a operation in north, they, merged