KOS: These are the troop counts of the Coalition

[roguevalley]

State of the coalition

by kos
Fri Dec 3rd, 2004 at 08:43:50 PST

So here's the best data on the status of Bush's coalition of the billing:

1. United Kingdom: 12,000 (will decrease to 10,500 in near future)
2. Italy: 3,169
3. South Korea: 2,800 (will increase to 3,600)
4. Poland: 2,400 (gradual complete pullout in 2005)
5. Ukraine: 1,400 (complete pull out over next few months?)
6. Netherlands: 1,345 (complete pullout by March 2005)
7. Romania: 700
8. Japan: 750
9. Denmark: 496
10. Bulgaria: 485 (pulling out 20 of those in near future)
11. El Salvador: 380
12. Hungary: 300 (complete pullout by March 2005)
13. Australia: 920
14. Mongolia: 180
15. Georgia: 159 (850 by end of 2004)
16. Azerbajian: 151
17. Portugal: 128
18. Latvia: 122
19. Czech: 110 (down to 10 in near future)
20. Lithuania: 105
21. Slovakia: 105
22. Albania: 71
23. Estonia: 55
24. Tonga: 45
25. Kazakhstan: 29
26. Macedonia: 28
27. Moldova: 12
28. Norway: 10

That makes for a total of 23,900 troops, over half from the Brits.

Countries who have already pulled out: Thailand, Spain, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Philippines, Singapore, and New Zealand.

Armenia was supposed to offer a 50-man contingent, but that is now up in the air. Fiji will send 130 troops to serve as security for the UN mission.

[Brundle_Fly]

1. ahh the GRAND collation.

Well done GW.

Top Drawer, indeed.

[arcos]

2. well, at least Kos didn't forget Poland...

:eyes:

[Straight Shooter]

3. Remember the fight in their Parliament over Japan sending troops?

Not exactly "willing" to join the coalition, were they? There's nothing like a little U.S. arm-twisting thuggery to change a country's mind, though.

[donhakman]

4. unpublished

[Pirate Smile]

5. Kerry made this point during a debate (I think it was MO) that the state

they were in would be the third largest contributor of troops to the coalition after the US and Britain.