ISIS and the Cost of War
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.”
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Facebook meme: Iraq War dollars could have ended world hunger for 30 years
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.”
We mortals should hate war
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.”
Veterans Journal: Brown’s Costs of War project focuses on Afghanistan toll
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.”
War in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Violence
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.”
Afghanistan War Victims
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.”
Iraq: Who watched the watchers?
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.
America’s Afghan Victims
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…”
We Need Smarter Solutions to Damned-If-You-Do-or-Don’t Dilemmas Like Syria
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."
On Containment and Islamism: Moderate Realism for a Fractious Age
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…”
The High Cost of U.S. Foreign Policy
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.”
Unfinished Portraits: Iraq and Afghanistan
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.”
How America Lost Its Nerve Abroad
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.”
Auditing the War on Terror: The Watson Institute's Costs of War Project
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."
The Boston bombing and us
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.”
The Cost of War
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.”
Car Bombs and Suicide Attacks in Baghdad Mark 10th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion
March 19, 2013 PBS News Hour
“A report released this month put the cost of Iraq’s reconstruction at more than $60 billion dollars so far, that on top of $1.7 trillion in estimated war costs, according to a recent study by Brown University.”
The continuing costs of the Iraq war: ‘We’re not doing enough’ for veterans
March 19, 2013 MSNBC
“The report reveals that 190,000 lives have been lost due to the war—70% of them, Iraqi civilians—and has cost the United States $2.2 trillion—44 times higher than what the U.S. Office of Management and Budget estimated.”
A Marine’s Anniversary Reflections
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.”
Cost of Iraq War: More than $2.2 trillion
March 19, 2013 UPI
“The Iraq War killed 190,000 people, 70 percent civilians and 4,488 U.S. service members and will cost the U.S. taxpayer $2.2 trillion, U.S. researchers say.”