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Jason Davidson, "Biden needs to talk about the costs of our wars to America's allies." The Hill, June 3, 2021
William Hartung, "Two Weapons That Shouldn’t Be In The Pentagon’s New Budget." Forbes, May 27, 2021
Andrea Mazzarino, "Changing the Way the Military Handles Sexual Assault." TomDispatch.com, May 23, 2021
Stephanie Savell, "The True Costs of War | Post-9/11 Analysis with Dr. Stephanie Savell." acTVism Munich, May 22, 2021
William Hartung, "Pentagon Waste Takes Many Forms." Forbes, May 20, 2021
David Vine, "Biden’s refugee plan doesn’t do nearly enough." NY Daily News, May 20, 2021
Stephanie Savell, "The Costs of U.S. Post-9/11 ‘Security Assistance’." BU Pardee Center, May 6, 2021
Heidi Peltier, "Wait....What? How Much? US Military Spending and National Priorities." Radius MIT, May 5, 2021
Heidi Peltier, "Will the war in Afghanistan really end? The numbers suggest otherwise." The Boston Globe, May 4, 2021
Najeeb Aminyar and Noah Coburn, "Life Isn't a Sitcom—the Costs of Working with Americans in Afghanistan." Newsweek, April 20, 2021
Andrea Mazzarino, "Making Sense of a Viral Military: A Military Spouse’s Perspective on the Pentagon’s Flawed Response to the Pandemic." TomDispatch.com, April 15, 2021
Neta Crawford and Catherine Lutz, "What the 18th anniversary of the Iraq War teaches us about the costs of war." Military Times, March 19, 2021
William Hartung, "A $700 Billion-Plus Pentagon Budget Is Fat, Not Flat." Forbes, March 19, 2021
Andrew J. Bacevich and David Vine, "Nine ways that drawing down overseas bases will improve US security." Responsible Statecraft, March 9, 2021
Stephanie Savell, "How US Counterterrorism Fuels Violence in the Sahel." Inkstick, March 12, 2021
Stephanie Savell on "The Cost Of U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts: More Than 800,000 Lives And $6.4 Trillion, Research Finds." WBUR, March 2, 2021
Andrea Mazzarino, "America Goes to War Perspectives on the Storming of the Capitol from a Military Spouse." TomDispatch.com, February 28, 2021
William Hartung, "Will Biden Really End Our Endless Wars?." The Nation, February 20, 2021
William Hartung, "Three Reasons To Reduce Pentagon Spending — Now." Forbes, February 16, 2021
Andrea Mazzarino, "Indirect Deaths: The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad." Moyers on Democracy, January 25, 2021
Mandy Smithberger and William Hartung, "Demilitarizing Our Democracy." TomDispatch.com, January 28, 2021
Neta Crawford, "The Militarization of American Democracy." The Hill, January 20, 2021
Stephanie Savell and Heidi Peltier, "The “Camo Economy”: The Economic & Political Camouflage of Military Contracting." BU Pardee Center, December 9, 2020
Neta Crawford, "Calculating the Immense Destruction of the War on Terror." In the Context of Empire, December 15, 2020
Heidi Peltier, "Defund the Pentagon: A Conversation with Carley Towne and Heidi Peltier." Code Pink, December 9, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "Ready or Not, Here They Come A Military Spouse’s Perspective on Bringing the Troops Home from Afghanistan and Iraq." TomDispatch.com, December 3, 2020
William Hartung, "Shrinking the Pentagon Will the Biden Administration Dare Cut Military Spending?." TomDispatch.com, November 27, 2020
William Hartung, "A Safer World Starts at the Grassroots." The Baraza, November 17, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "How the War Came Home, Big Time: Perspectives From a Military Spouse." TomDispatch, October 27, 2020
William Hartung and Ben Freeman, "A Long Overdue Discussion on Pentagon Spending." The Hill, October 25, 2020
Heidi Peltier, "The Bang and the Bucks: Post-9/11 Military Spending and the Shortchanging of Other Urgent Needs" Pardee School of Global Studies, October 26, 2020
Neta Crawford, "Keep calm and carry on with the 2020 election" The Hill, October 13, 2020
William Hartung, "How to Stuff the Middle East With Weaponry" TomDispatch.com, October 13, 2020
Linda Bilmes, "Rethinking U.S. National Security After COVID-19" Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, De Gruyter, September 16, 2020
William Hartung, "We Should Be Debating How To Reduce the Pentagon Budget" Forbes, September 28, 2020
William Hartung, "A $13 Billion Contract for ICBMs: What’s the Rush?" Defense One, September 23, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "(Un)Civil War?" Tom Dispatch, September 22, 2020
David Vine, "The U.S. War on Terror Has Displaced 37 Million People: Here's Why We Used the Numbers We Did," Foreign Policy in Focus, September 23, 2020
David Vine, "US-led wars have displaced 37m people. America should accept responsibility," The Guardian, September 18, 2020
Catherine Lutz, "The Imperative to Know the Real Costs of War," Center on National Security, September 10, 2020
David Vine, "Millions Displaced By U.S. Combat Since 9/11," Investigative Reporting Workshop, September 8, 2020
David Vine, "What explains the U.S. record of near-constant warfare?," Investigative Reporting Workshop, September 8, 2020
Interview with David Vine, "Anthropologist warns of growth in U.S. bases," Investigative Reporting Workshop, September 8, 2020
William D. Hartung, "Democrats Need to Get Specific on Defense Cuts," The Hill, August 13, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "The Military Is Sick: A Navy Spouse's Take on Why We're Not Getting Better," TomDispatch, August 4, 2020
William Hartung, "House and Senate Poised for Historic Votes on Reducing Pentagon Spending," Forbes, July 21, 2020
William Hartung, "America Needs a Transformative Foreign Policy," Forbes, July 14, 2020
Heidi Peltier, "Heidi Peltier on the Camo Economy," Talk Nation Radio, July 14, 2020
Heidi Peltier, "The 'Camo Economy' Hides Military Costs and Exacerbates Inequality," Inequality.org, July 7, 2020
William D. Hartung, "Police, Prisons, and the Pentagon: Defunding America's Wars at Home and Abroad," TomDispatch, July 7, 2020
William Hartung, "The 10% Solution: Cut The Pentagon To Fund Domestic Needs," Forbes, June 30, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "The War Zone Is America: A Military Spouse's Perspective on Racism and Armed Violence in the United States," TomDispatch, June 21, 2020
Neta C. Crawford and Catherine Lutz, "Too much military spending got us into this mess," The Boston Globe, June 7, 2020
Catherine Besteman and Amanda Sperber, "Episode 26: Airstrikes in East Africa," None of the Above, May 29, 2020
William Hartung, "The Pentagon Versus Public Health: The Race Is On," Forbes, May 29, 2020
Astri Suhrke and Antonio De Lauri, "Peace in Afghanistan? Watch the militias," The New Humanitarian, May 26, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "Who Is 'Essential' to Our Covid-19 World: A Military Spouse's Perspective on Fighting This Pandemic," TomDispatch, May 14, 2020
Ann Jones, "Testing Times: A Journal of the Onset of the Plague Year," TomDispatch, May 7, 2020
Catherine Lutz, "War Narratives and COVID-19," Quaker Council for European Affairs, April 23, 2020
William Hartung, "Five Reasons To Cut Pentagon Spending In the Era of COVID-19," Forbes, April 16, 2020
Catherine Lutz, "Fighting COVID-19 with the Wrong Tools," Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, April 9, 2020
Neta C. Crawford, "The World After Coronavirus: The Future of War," Boston University Pardee Center, April 7, 2020
William D. Hartung and Joseph Cirincione, "Why America Needs to Rethink Its National Security Priorities," The National Interest, April 6, 2020
Catherine Lutz and Neta Crawford, "Fighting a Virus with the Wrong Tools," The Hill, March 28, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "'What Americans Don't Know About Military Families," TomDispatch, March 22, 2020
William Hartung, "Coronavirus Shows U.S. Must Treat Health As A Long-Term Security Issue," Forbes, March 17, 2020
William Hartung, "Will Trump Ride Pentagon Spending to Reelection?," Tom Dispatch, February 11, 2020
William Hartung, "High Pentagon Budgets Are a Problem, Not a Solution," Forbes, February 10, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "'We've Been Attacked!' Women and Trauma in the Trump-Putin Era," TomDispatch, February 6, 2020
Neta C. Crawford, "The Iraq War Has Cost the US Nearly $2 Trillion," Defense One, February 4, 2020
William Hartung, "The Wall Isn't The Only Thing That Shouldn't Be In The Pentagon Budget," Forbes, January 23, 2020
Neta C. Crawford, "Drones Are Cheap. A War With Iran Isn't," Barron's, January 3, 2020
Andrea Mazzarino, "'The Shooters Are Coming!' War on Terror, War on Education," TomDispatch, December 19, 2019
William D. Hartung, "The Pentagon Budget Still Rising, 40 Years Later: The Stubborn Persistance of the Military-Industrial State," TomDispatch, December 15, 2019
William Hartung, "Afghanistan: A Way Out?," Forbes, December 12, 2019
Neta C. Crawford, "Explosive Investigation Shows U.S. Officials Mislead the Public About "Unwinnable" War In Afghanistan for Years," The Takeaway, December 10, 2019
Andrea Mazzarino, "Bearing Witness to the Costs of War: On Being a Military Spouse and Writing About Our Post-9/11 Wars," TomDispatch, November 24, 2019
William Hartung, "The 16% Solution: Making America Safer for Less," Forbes, November 22, 2019
William Hartung, "Tomgram: William Hartung, Trumping the Arms Market," TomDispatch, November 17, 2019
David Vine, "Reckoning with the costs of war: It's time to take responsibility," The Hill, November 13, 2019
William Hartung, "How To Save Hundreds of Billions of Dollars While Making America Safer," Forbes, November 7, 2019
William D. Hartung, "America's Military is Misdirected, Not Underfunded," Defense One, November 1, 2019
Catherine Lutz and Neta Crawford, "A Disastrous 18 Years in Afghanistan," Providence Journal, October 7, 2019
William D. Hartung, "Why is the United States still siding with the ruthless regime in Saudi Arabia?," The Washington Post, October 6, 2019
William Hartung and Mandy Smithberger, "Tomgram: Hartung and Smitberger, A Trillion-Dollar Future Pentagon Budget?" TomDispatch, September 26, 2019
Catherine L. Besteman, "Catherine L. Besteman on America's Shadow War in Somalia," The Scott Horton Show, September 23, 2019
Stephanie Savell, "The Imperial Debris of War: Why Ending the Afghan War Won't End the Kiling," TomDispatch, September 19, 2019
William D. Hartung, "The Pentagon and Border Security: Wall-to-Wall Hypocrisy," Inkstick, September 17, 2019
Neta Crawford, "Costs and Consequences of U.S. Post-9/11 Wars: Focus on Climate Change," Watson Institute Presentation, September 11, 2019
Andrew Bacevich, "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Ending War, American-Style," TomDispatch, September 10, 2019
Astri Suhrke and Antonio de Lauri, "Trump Wants the CIA to Stay Behind in Afghanistan. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?," Newsweek, September 6, 2019
William Hartung, "War With Iran Would Be Disastrous And Enormously Costly," Forbes, September 5, 2019
Stephanie Savell, "When Is America Going to End Its Shadow War in Somalia?," The Guardian, September 5, 2019
Stephanie Savell, "Opinion: Democratic Candidates Are Ignoring the 'Endless War' Beyond Afghanistan," Military Times, August 11, 2019
Susan Coleman with Stephanie Savell, "Episode 39: Stephanie Savell: The Costs of War," The Peacebuilding Podcast, August 6, 2019
William D. Hartung, "$738 Billion For Defense: What a Waste," Inkstick, July 29, 2019
William Hartung, "In Budget Deal, White House And Congress Overpay For The Pentagon," Forbes, July 23, 2019
Medea Benjamin, John Tierney, David Vine, and Col. (Ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson, "Military Spending Has Many Points of Contention: Closing Overseas Bases Isn't One of Them," The Hill, July 17, 2019
William D. Hartung, "Merger Mania: The Military-Industrial Complex on Steroids," TomDispatch, July 16, 2019
Ben Freeman and William D. Hartung, "The Pentagon Has More Money Than It Can Spend. Both Democrats and the GOP Are to Blame," Newsweek, July 16, 2019
William Hartung, "Stop Overspending On The Pentagon," Forbes, July 9, 2019
Linda J. Bilmes, Rosetta Cappella Zielinski, and Neta C. Crawford, "War With Iran Will Cost More Than the Iraq and Iran Wars," The Boston Globe, June 24, 2019
Neta C. Crawford, "The Defense Department is Worried About Climate Change - and Also a Huge Carbon Emitter," The Conversation, June 12, 2019
William D. Hartung, "Congress Should Take a Harder Look at the Pentagon Budget," Inkstick, June 5, 2019
William D. Hartung, "America's Defense Budget is Bigger Than You Think," The Nation, May 7, 2019
Interview with Rosella Cappella Zielinski, "How Do States Pay for Wars?," Phenomenal World, May 3, 2019
William D. Hartung, "Pentagon Spending is a Poor Job Creator," The Nation, March 22, 2019
William D. Hartung, "The Military-Industrial Complex: Trump’s Ties to Boeing in Spotlight Amid Probes of 737 MAX 8 Jets," Democracy Now!, March 19, 2019
Stephanie Savell, "Fueling the Backfire: Our Everywhere War on Terror," Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen, March 7, 2019
Stephanie Savell, "Mapping the American War on Terror: Now in 80 Countries, It Couldn't Be More Global," TomDispatch, February 19, 2019
Andrew Bacevich, "Lost in Trump World: War in the Shadows (of You Know Who)," TomDispatch, February 5, 2019
Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung, "Our Man from Boeing: Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump's Pentagon?," TomDispatch, January 29, 2019
Heidi Peltier, "Expenditures for Education or Healthcare Benefit More Than Military Spending," WORT 89.9FM Madison, January 23, 2019
Stephanie Savell, "This Map Shows Where in the World the U.S. Military is Combatting Terrorism," Smithsonian, January 2019
William D. Hartung, "America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion," The Nation, November 21, 2018
Stephanie Savell, "Rising death rate prompts some in Congress to reassess 'war on terror,'" Axios, November 8, 2018
Linda J. Bilmes, "Is the U.S. Forgetting the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?," Boston Globe, October 11, 2018
Rosella Cappella Zielinski, "How U.S. Wars Abroad Increase Inequality at Home," Foreign Affairs, October 5, 2018
William D. Hartung, "Trump's Space Force: Smoke and Mirrors or a Step Towards War in Space?," TomDispatch, September 25, 2018
Noah Coburn, Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America's Global War, Stanford University Press, September 2018
William D. Hartung, "Donald Trump, Gunrunner for Hire," TomDispatch, August 14, 2018
William D. Hartung, "Trump's Infrastructure Plan: Pump Up the Pentagon," TomDispatch, July 2, 2018
Stephanie Savell, "Credit Card Wars: Today's War Financing Strategies Will Only Increase Inequality," TomDispatch, June 28, 2018
Andrew Bacevich, "How To Challenge the Elite Consensus for Endless War," The Nation, June 21, 2018
William D. Hartung, "Do We Really Need $716 Billion for the Pentagon?," The Hill, May 19, 2018
Ben Freeman and William D. Hartung, "Arms and Influence: How the Saudis Took Donald Trump for a Ride," TomDispatch, May 10, 2018
Andrew Bacevich, "Creating a Perpetual War Machine," TomDispatch, April 10, 2018
Stephanie Savell, "The Astounding Reach of US Military Counterterrorism," Frank News, April 2, 2018
William D. Hartung, "Arms Sales Decisions Shouldn't Be About Jobs," Defense One, March 26, 2018
Stephanie Savell, "15 Years After the Iraq Invasion, What Are the Costs?" OtherWords, March 21, 2018
William D. Hartung, "Iraq: Weighing the Costs of War," The Hill, March 13, 2018
William D. Hartung, "How the Pentagon Devours the Budget," TomDispatch, Feb. 27, 2018
Stephanie Savell, "The Wars No One Notices: Talking to a Demobilized Country," TomDispatch, Feb. 15, 2018
Catherine Besteman and Stephanie Savell, "Where in the World is the U.S. Military? Everywhere," U.S. News & World Report, Jan. 12, 2018
William D. Hartung, "Reaganomics on Steroids," Inkstick Media, Dec. 14, 2017
Andrew Bacevich, "A Country Addicted to War," TomDispatch, Dec. 10, 2017
William D. Hartung, "Massive Overkill: Brought to You by the Nuclear-Industrial Complex," TomDispatch, Nov. 14, 2017
Linda J. Bilmes, "On Veteran's Day, Let's Honor the Promises We've Made to Veterans," Boston Globe, Nov. 9, 2017
William D. Hartung, "How the Military-Industrial Complex Preys on the Troops," TomDispatch, Oct. 10, 2017
Andrew Bacevich, "How We Learned Not to Care About America's Wars," TomDispatch, Oct. 8, 2017
Jennifer Greenburg, "New Military Femininities: Humanitarian Violence and the Gendered Work of War Among US Servicewomen," Gender, Place, and Culture, Oct. 5, 2017
William D. Hartung, "The Wrong Diagnosis on Defense: More Money Won't Solve the Military's Readiness Problems," U.S. News & World Report, Sept. 29, 2017
Catherine Lutz, "The War in Afghanistan Might Not Be Effective -- But For Some, It's Profitable," Pacific Standard, Sept. 7, 2017
Mac Skelton and Sherri Kraham Talabany, "War, Health, and Refugees in Iraq: Stakeholder Meeting Report," Institute of Regional and International Studies, Iraq, August 2017
William D. Hartung, "The Trillion-Dollar National Security Budget," TomDispatch, July 25, 2017
Matthew Evangelista, "Why We Fight Wars," The Chronical of Higher Education, May 28, 2017
Matthew Evangelista, "Donald Trump and the Limits of International Law," The International Security Studies Forum, May 24, 2017
William D. Hartung and Catherine Lutz, “Trump’s Budget Puts Lives at Risk,” U.S. News & World Report, May 23, 2017
David Vine, “Trumping Democracy in America’s Empire of Bases,” TomDispatch, May 16, 2017
Andrew Bacevich, “What Obsessing about You-Know-Who Causes Us to Miss,” TomDispatch, May 7, 2017
Matthew Evangelista, "Is War Too Easy?" Perspectives on Politics 14 (1), March 2016