PRECISION

The U.S. has dropped about 8,000 bombs over Afghanistan to date, according to the Pentagon. Of this number, about 60 percent have been precision-guided weapons. During the Yugoslav air strikes in 1999, U.S. and NATO forces dropped approximately 23,000 bombs, of which 35 percent were guided. In the...

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