January 7, 2015 Global Research
“The Costs of War Project – a nonpartisan, nonprofit, scholarly initiative based at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies – notes: In Iraq, over 70 percent of those who died of direct war violence have been civilians.”
December 15, 2014 The Hill
“The war in Iraq, by contrast, cost the U.S. $1.7 trillion, according to a Costs of War Project conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.”
November 7, 2014 Press TV
“Expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, according to a study called Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.”
October 16, 2014 Color Lines
“According to The Costs of War project at Brown University, the total costs for the second Iraq War and the ongoing one in Afghanistan is $4.4 trillion.”
June 24, 2014 Tampa Bay Times
“Brown University - Cost of War Project: $770 billion for direct military spending; $40 billion [for] current health costs; $490 billion [for] future health care costs. The total of all costs, including interest on debt and homeland security and more, is $2.2 trillion.”
November 6, 2013 Colorado Springs Independent
Charles H. Guy: “With scholars of all kinds, from 15 universities plus the United Nations, they looked at the Iraq war specifically and released a report this past March, at the 10-year anniversary of the conflict beginning there.”
October 21, 2013 Providence Journal
“The human toll in deaths by direct war violence, including U.S. soldiers and contractors, allied soldiers, Afghan security forces, insurgents, militants and civilians, is now estimated to be at least 145,000 since 2001 in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
October 7, 2013 Truthout
H. Patricia Hynes: “Altogether the war in Afghanistan has cost American citizens $1.834 trillion, or 30 times President Bush's touted cost. The authors concede this is a conservative figure that excludes the social costs to families caring for veterans and record-breaking rates of veteran suicide, unemployment, homelessness, domestic violence and family breakup with its punishing setbacks for children. Nor does it include the collateral effects of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars: higher oil prices, intensified recession and the loss of domestic jobs.”
October 3, 2013 All4PeaceNow
“Among those documenting casualty figures is Neta Crawford’s “Civilian Death and Injury in Afghanistan, 2001–2011,” which estimates an astonishing 19,000 civilians killed in the 13-year war.”
September 30, 2013 Marketplace
In his final report to Congress this month, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, came to the conclusion that the $60 billion the U.S. spent on rebuilding in Iraq produced too few results.
September 18, 2013 The Nation
"Perhaps the best account of casualties was part of the Costs of War report prepared by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies…”
August 29, 2013 Scientific American
"Doing nothing seems immoral, but military intervention poses terrible risks. Those who support military actions against Syria should check out the ‘Costs of War’ project."
July 15, 2013 Georgetown Journal
“Watson Institute at Brown University has produced a report titled ‘Costs of War’ which gives the costs of the Iraq War as 189,000 deaths and upwards of $2 trillion dollars…”
July 9, 2013 The National Interest
“Brown University’s Costs of War project has estimated that American military expenditures on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan will ultimately cost over $4 trillion dollars—fully one quarter of the entire U.S. national debt.”
July 2, 2013 Counter Punch
“According to the Costs of War project … at least 330,000 people have been killed by direct violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. This does not include hundreds of thousands of other deaths that occurred because of the wars.”
June 13, 2013 The Atlantic
“The latest reckoning of the costs of that war come to a staggering $2.2 trillion … —an amount that could turn just about anyone into a deficit hawk.”
May 17, 2013 American Anthropologist
"The Costs of War project advocates increasing governmental transparency of those aspects of war that can be counted…as a basic means of providing the context for a democratic debate about war."
April 25, 2013 NPR
“The invasion has cost U.S. taxpayers about $2 trillion. Taking care of veterans from the Iraq War and rebuilding Iraq will cost additional billions.”
March 20, 2013 The Providence Phoenix
“…with the tenth anniversary of the war upon us, Lutz and a team … have developed something more robust: a comprehensive, by-the-numbers look at the human, financial, and social impacts of the conflict.”
March 19, 2013 Time
“A recent study out of Brown University estimated that the war has cost a total of 190,000 lives and $2.2 trillion so far. These costs could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next 40 years — simply staggering figures.”