Papers — Human
Making Crisis Inevitable: The Effects of U.S. Counterterrorism Training and Spending in Somalia
Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023
Uncompensated Allies: How Contracting Companies and U.S. Government Agencies Failed Third-Country Nationals in Afghanistan
Noah Coburn, Peter Gill (2022)
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By the Numbers: Afghanistan before and after 20 years of war (2001-2021)
Costs of War Project (2022)
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UPDATE: Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars
David Vine, Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachel Leduc, and Jennifer Walkup (2021)
High Suicide Rates among United States Service Members and Veterans of the Post-9/11 Wars
The Costs of War to United States Allies Since 9/11
The Costs of Working with the Americans in Afghanistan: The United States' Broken Special Immigrant Visa Process
Noah Coburn (2021)
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The Costs of United States’ Post-9/11 “Security Assistance”: How Counterterrorism Intensified Conflict in Burkina Faso and Around the World
Afghanistan's Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020
The Human Cost of U.S. Interventions in Iraq: A History From the 1960s Through the Post-9/11 Wars
Zainab Saleh (2020) SUMMARY AND PAPER>
Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars
David Vine, Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachel Leduc, and Jennifer Walkup (2020)
The Guards, Cooks, and Cleaners of the Afghan War: Migrant Contractors and the Cost of War
Noah Coburn (2017)
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – On Monday, President Trump’s speech on the war in Afghanistan seemed to reveal a U.S. military strategy that will continue to look like more of the same. Even with an increase in military personnel, the U.S. can expect to see a continued reliance on the tens of thousands of security contractors who many war analysts now call America’s invisible soldiers or army. A report released this week by the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs describes, in detail, the exploitation of immigrant contractors working for the U.S. in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, highlighting abysmal labor conditions and other human rights violations.
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