September 12, 2016 Military Times
In a report for Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, study author Neta Crawford called the total “so large as to be almost incomprehensible,” but noted the dollar figures are only one part of the costs of war.
September 12, 2016 The Fiscal Times
"Almost 7,000 U.S. troops have been killed since the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq began, and about 210,000 civilians in those two countries and Pakistan have lost their lives as a result of the fighting, according to Brown University’s Watson Institute. In addition, nearly 7,000 contractors working for the U.S. and its allies have died. In all, roughly 370,000 people have died as a direct result of the fighting."
September 9, 2016 US News & World Report
"According to a study released Friday through Brown University's Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, government spending on the military, diplomacy, foreign aid, homeland security and services to veterans have cost U.S. taxpayers upward of $4.79 trillion in the post-Sept. 11 era."
September 9, 2016 News from Brown
Total U.S. spending on national security related to the post-9/11 war on terror has reached $3.6 trillion, and interest on funds borrowed to pay those bills could climb to $7.9 trillion by 2053.
July 6, 2016 BBC World Service
The Watson Institute's Cost of War Project is cited on BBC Business Matters.
May 4, 2016 Huffington Post
"Approximately 92,000 Afghans have been killed in the war since 2001, and more than 26,000 of those were civilians, according to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Almost 100,000 more have been injured."
April 10, 2015 Al Jazeera America
“The Costs of War project at Brown University estimated in June 2014 that the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan would cost taxpayers ‘close to $4.4 trillion, not including future interest costs on borrowing for the wars,’ through the end of 2014.”
March 27, 2015 Defense One
“According to a 2013 study by the Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the United States more than $4 trillion.”
March 15, 2015 Jadaliyya
Contributor Omar Dewachi speaks about Iraqi health care.
March 11, 2015 ABC 7 News
“The Costs of War project also focuses on these non-monetary expenses, such as the toll on military families and the casualties in wars.”
February 24, 2015 The Providence Journal
“Brown University researchers say the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have cost Rhode Island more than $70 million to date, and will cost millions more.”
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.”