The fatal expense of American imperialism
November 4, 2016 The Boston Globe
"A more recent study, by the Cost of War Project at Brown University, puts the price tag at $4.7 trillion through 2016."
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Where Is That Wasteful Government Spending?
October 20, 2016 History News Network
Taking these and other factors into account, a recent study at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the cost to U.S. taxpayers of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at nearly $5 trillion thus far. According to the report’s author, Neta Crawford, this figure is “so large as to be almost incomprehensible.”
The $5 trillion wars
October 18, 2016 Boston Globe
"The most recent estimates suggest that war costs will run to nearly $5 trillion — a staggering sum that exceeds even the $3 trillion that Joseph Stiglitz and I predicted back in 2008.Yet the cost seems invisible to politicians and the public alike."
The frighteningly high human and financial costs of war
October 12, 2016 AlJazeera
"The Costs of War Project comprises 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners and physicians, and has been working since 2011 to document the full human, material, and political costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria - and to ask for an official accounting. The project's findings show that over the past 15 years, US conflicts have cost more than 600,000 military and civilian lives, resulted in more than seven million refugees and displaced people, and run-up perhaps nearly $13 trillion in financial costs over the lifetimes of the conflicts."
After 15 years, Taliban still control as much Afghanistan area as when war started
October 7, 2016 Times of India
"These 15 years of war, preceded by 20 years of wars against the Soviet Union and between warlords has taken a devastating toll. A latest estimate of direct war related casualties by Neta Crawford says, professor at Boston University, some 111,000 people have died and 116,000 injured."
Fighting Terrorism With a Credit Card
September 12, 2016
"Since the 9/11 attacks, America has poured $3.2 trillion into its wars, according to anew study from Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs."
Report: Nearly $5 trillion and counting spent on Iraq and Afghanistan wars
September 12, 2016 Stars and Stripes
"The calculations by Dr. Neta Crawford extend beyond the typical accounting of overseas contingency operations for the Defense and State Departments, which amounts to $1.7 trillion through 2016, according to her report issued late last week."
Report: Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan cost almost $5 trillion so far
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.
Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan Have Cost the US Nearly $5 Trillion
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."
Report Tallies Total Cost of Post-Sept. 11 Wars
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."
US spending on Middle East wars, Homeland Security will reach $4.79 trillion in 2017
(PRESS RELEASE)
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.
Shares Slide as Brexit Fears Take Hold
July 6, 2016 BBC World Service
The Watson Institute's Cost of War Project is cited on BBC Business Matters.
Peace is at Hand in Afghanistan — Or Not
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."
Americans have yet to grasp the horrific magnitude of the ‘war on terror’
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.”
The Reckless Man’s Case for Bombing Iran
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.”
Dismantling Iraqi Health Care and its Regional Impacts: A STATUS/الوضع Conversation between Omar Dewachi and Rania Masri
March 15, 2015 Jadaliyya
Contributor Omar Dewachi speaks about Iraqi health care.
Cost of caring for Afghanistan, Iraq veterans extends beyond federal government to states
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.”
Brown researchers put cost of war for R.I. at more than $70 million
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.”
Obama Has Killed More People with Drones than Died On 9/11
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.”
Cost of Afghanistan War nears $1T
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.”