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Costs of War

Apocalypse soon? John Bolton is set to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser

March 26, 2018 The Nation

The news that President Trump will install John Bolton as his next national security adviser comes at a time when, by some estimates, the U.S. is waging at least nine undeclared wars across the globe. The Costs of War project estimated that between 2015 and October 2017, the U.S. military conducted air and drone strikes on seven countries and had combat troops deployed in 15 more.

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