August 16, 2018 TomDispatch
Costs of War study cited on TomDispatch, "Thanks to [Osama bin Laden's] “precision” weaponry -- those 19 suicidal hijackers in commercial jets -- the nearly 17 years of wars he's sparked across much of the Muslim world cost a man from one of Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest families a mere $400,000 to $500,000. They’ve cost American taxpayers, minimally, $5.6 trillion dollars with no end in sight."
August 9, 2018 Foreign Policy in Focus
An analysis of U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan argues that it is part of a long-term strategy to gain regional influence and access to resources. The article cites the Costs of War Project, which estimates that more than 100,000 people have died in the war in Afghanistan and about 200,000 people have died in the war in Iraq.
August 1, 2018 Portside
Costs of War Co-Director Stephanie Savell writes, "...the staggering costs of the longest war in American history -- almost 17 years running, since the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 -- are being deferred to the future."
July 18, 2018 BuzzFeed
Lindsay Koshgarian uses Costs of War estimates to argue that when some argue that ideas like healthcare for all or public college are written off as fantasy thinking, they should consider the virtually unlimited military spending of the US.
June 30, 2018 Salon
A new Costs of War study by political scientist Rosella Cappella Zielinski shows that one effect of how today's wars are financed is a rise in social inequality in the US.
June 28, 2018 The Nation
Costs of War co-director Stephanie Savell breaks down how "deficit spending abroad is driving inequality at home."
June 28, 2018 Truthout
Costs of War Co-Director Stephanie Savell writes, "the staggering costs of the longest war in American history — almost 17 years running, since the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 — are being deferred to the future. In the process, the government is contributing to this country’s skyrocketing income inequality."
May 27, 2018 Truthout
Truthout interviews Tom Englehardt, who cites the Costs of War Project's estimate of $5.6 trillion as "the best figure I've seen" on how much money has gone to the U.S. war on terror.
May 24, 2018 CNN
An estimate of how much regime change in Iran could cost, drawing on the Costs of War Project's figures for how much the post-9/11 wars have cost -- more than 100 times more than the George W. Bush administration's initial claims about how expensive the war with Iraq would be.
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.