May 15, 2018 TomDispatch
Tom Englehardt cites the Costs of War Project estimates of the budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars - $5.6 trillion - among other horrifying costs of the US war on terror.
May 10, 2018 The New York Times
President Trump has said repeatedly that the U.S. has spent $7 trillion on the Middle East wars. He may be getting this figure from an erroneous reading of Costs of War Project findings about the budgetary costs of those wars.
May 10, 2018 The Washington Post
President Trump has said repeatedly that the US "has spent $7 trillion on the Middle East." He is thought to be referring to a study by the Costs of War Project that includes future costs in Iraq and Syria but also in Afghanistan.
May 1, 2018 Politifact
Politifact features data by Costs of War co-director Neta Crawford in judging Trump's claim that the US has spent $7 trillion on the Middle East Wars as "half true."
April 17, 2018 NPR
NPR host on "All Things Considered" draws on the Costs of War project's global map of US counterterror activity in asking whether "our terminology is out of date when we don't have a good way to describe what the U.S. is doing in such a large number of places around the world."
April 11, 2018 Quartz
This article features Costs of War project data showing how much money the US has allocated for interventions in Syria.
April 3, 2018 The Wall Street Journal
President Trump said on Tuesday that he wanted the U.S. military to "bring our troops back home" from Syria and "start rebuilding our nation." He has claimed that the U.S. has spent $7 trillion in the Middle East since 2001; the Cost of War Project estimates the U.S. has spent $1.8 trillion in direct costs and $4.3 trillion in direct and indirect costs.
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.
March 22, 2018 The Missourian
On the anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, Costs of War co-director Stephanie Savell tallies the devastating costs of that decision.
March 21, 2018 C-SPAN
During a Senate debate on the Yemen War Powers Resolution on March 20, 2018, lawmakers discussed the extent of U.S. force abroad and Congress's role in making decisions about where the U.S. goes to war. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) cited new Brown University Costs of War project data showing that the U.S. is taking military action against terrorism in 76 countries. "How often," he asked, "has Congress debated whether those military actions were authorized?" Costs of War Project cited at 4:07: US Senate Debates Yemen War Powers Resolution - C-SPAN
March 20, 2018 The Boston Globe
This column, published on the anniversary of the Iraq war, cites the Costs of War project estimate that the post-9/11 wars have cost more than $5.5 trillion.
March 20, 2018 Think Progress
Costs of War co-director Neta Crawford is quoted in an article weighing the lessons the U.S. has learned from the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "The wars against Iraq (and Afghanistan) have been paid for by raising the national deficit... 'That is tremendously bad for the economy,' said Crawford."
March 19, 2018 The Sydney Morning Herald
On the 15th anniversary of Australia's decision to join the U.S.-led coalition in invading Iraq, the author questions Australia's decision, which has led to so much suffering and death. The author cites Costs of War figures on casualties of the war.
March 18, 2018 The Washington Post
Costs of War project co-director Stephanie Savell quoted on why, when US drone strikes on the Middle East are more prevalent than ever before, there is so little US media coverage of these strikes: “We all know there’s stuff going on in the name of fighting terror, but there’s not much interest in the details,” Savell said. “It’s considered unpatriotic to question what’s going on with the military.”
March 13, 2018 The Hill
On the 15th anniversary of the war in Iraq, Costs of War contributor William Hartung uses Costs of War Project figures in weighing the budgetary and human costs of the war.
February 25, 2018 Salon
Stephanie Savell, Costs of War co-director, examines her experience trying to draw attention to the post-9/11 wars.
February 20, 2018 Defense One
Defense One cites Costs of War Co-Director Neta Crawford on the increasing difficulty of accounting for what the US is spending on war: “If you look at the trend, it’s toward diminishing the potential … to understand and report what we’re spending money on.”
February 15, 2018 The Nation
Article by Costs of War co-director Stephanie Savell on what it's like to work in opposition to war in a country that doesn't think of itself as "at war."
February 15, 2018 The Huffington Post
This opinion piece cites the Costs of War Project's map showing that US military counterterrorism activity is taking place in 76 countries.
February 12, 2018 AP News
AP News compares Trump's claim that the wars in the Middle East have cost "$7 trillion" to the Costs of War Project's estimates.