BEIJING: The US deploys military forces in over 150 countries around the world with approximately 165,000 active-service personnel stationed outside its territories and hundreds of military bases covering nearly all the continents. Contrary to its pompous promises of maintaining peace in conflict zones, what the United States left behind is underestimated civilian casualties and innumerable untended families.

Last week, the US Department of Defense (DoD) published its annual report on civilian casualties, confessing that there were some 23 civilians killed and 10 injured in 2020 as a result of US military operations in Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq.

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