History

OEF commenced in October 7, 2001, with "early combat operations operations [including] a mix of air strikes from land-based B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bombers; carrier-based F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet fighters; and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from both U.S. and British ships and submarines."[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom.htm]

"The initial military objectives of Operation Enduring Freedom, as articulated by President George W. Bush in his [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2001/09/mil-010920-usia01.htm Sept. 20th Address] to a Joint Session of Congress and his [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2001/10/mil-011007-usia01.htm Oct. 7th address] to country, include the destruction of terrorist training camps and infrastructure within Afghanistan, the capture of al Qaeda leaders, and the cessation of terrorist activities in Afghanistan."[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom.htm]

In May 2, 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announced [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2634-2003May1?language=printer the end of Afghan combat]. Nonetheless, in December 9, 2003, the U.S. armed services [http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/12/08/afghan.offensive/ announced] that it experienced "launched a major ground operation in Afghanistan in an effort to eliminate the remnants of al Qaeda and the Taliban regime overthrown in 2001."

Effectiveness of the invasion of Afghanistan
AFP, reporting on the news article in the Sunday, April 3, 2004, [http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southasia/view/78653/1/.html issue of The New Yorker], wrote that retired Army Colonel Hy Rothstein, "who served in the Army Special Forces for more than 20 years, ... commissioned by The Pentagon to examine the war in Afghanistan concluded the conflict created conditions that have given 'warlordism, banditry and opium production a new lease on life' ...."

Rothstein continues to say that a "'military should have used Special Forces to adapt to new conditions' and that the war 'effectively destroyed the Taliban but has been significantly less successful at being able to achieve the primary policy goal of ensuring that al Qaeda could no longer operate in Afghanistan.'"

The New Yorker reported that the "Pentagon returned the report to Rothstein with a request he cut it drastically and soften his conclusions ... 'There may be a kernel of truth in there, but our experts found the study rambling and not terribly informative,' Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph Collins told The New Yorker."

the conduct of United states of america forces was criticised inside a report entitled Enduring Freedom - Abuses by US Forces in Afghanistan by US-based human rights class action, Human Rights Watch in 2004.

Casualties
Casualties among pro & anti-Our contries groups inside Afghanistan & a Philippines come unknown. Among a American coalition, when of September 14, 2005, there have been 290 coalition deaths within Afghanistan and other theatre of war--234 American, 17 Spanish, 16 German, 7 Canadian, 4 British, 3 Danish, 3 Romanians, 2 French, 2 Italians, 1 Australian, and Single Norwegian.