Costs

Wars kill people directly, through violence, and indirectly, from reverberating effects like the destruction of infrastructure such as healthcare systems. In the post-9/11 wars, hundreds of thousands died – the vast majority of them civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Millions were also displaced from their homes. More

• U.S. & Allied Killed and Wounded
• U.S. Veterans & Military Families
• Civilians Killed & Wounded
• Refugees & Health

Photo Credit: Afghan refugee girls sit behind a wooden cart in a slum in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

The United States spent and obligated trillions of dollars to fight the post-9/11 wars. When calculating the U.S. federal price tag for wars, it is important to look beyond direct congressional war appropriations, to spending on items like U.S. veterans’ health care and interest on war borrowing. More

• U.S. Economy
• U.S. Federal Budget
• What Has Not Been Counted

In the United States and in the conflict zones, the post-9/11 wars eroded civil liberties and human rights. Terror suspects have been detained indefinitely without fair trial, tortured, and mistreated by U.S. officials and partner governments. The U.S. has expanded the post-9/11 wars across the globe, bolstering government repression in many countries. More

• Global Expansion of Post-9/11 Wars
• Human Rights and Civil Liberties
• Corporate Power, Profiteering & "Camo Economy"
• Environmental Costs

The United States Department of Defense is the world’s single largest institutional consumer of oil – and as a result, one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters. MORE 

• Environmental Costs