The Cries of Gaza Reach Afghanistan
November 26, 2023 IPS News
IPS News cited Costs of War on the costs of war in Afghanistan.
Search Results for "Afghanistan"
Canada’s Legacy in Afghanistan
August 19, 2024 OpenCanada
OpenCanada cited Costs of War on the human costs of war.
Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
March 13, 2025 Law & Liberty
Law & Liberty cited the budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars.
Biden to Pledge September 11th Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Afghanistan
April 13, 2021 Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone cites Costs of War statistics on the U.S. War on Terror in Afghanistan.
From Moral Responsibility to Magical Thinking: How Biden Changed His Mind on Afghanistan
April 16, 2021 Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy cites Costs of War statistics on the economic and human costs of the US War on Terror in Afghanistan.
A Near Press Blackout in Afghanistan
August 4, 2021 The New Yorker
The New Yorker cites Costs of war Project data on the budgetary cost of the post-9/11 wars.
America’s Longest War: A Visual History of 19 Years in Afghanistan
April 18, 2021 The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal cites Costs of War statistics on the human and economic costs of the US War on Terror in Afghanistan.
America's Ruinous Pursuit of Mission Impossible in Afghanistan
April 26, 2021 Common Dreams
Common Dreams cites Costs of War statistics on the economic costs of the US War on Terror.
Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
January 1, 2019 The New York Times
This opinion piece cites the Costs of War Project on the $2 trillion costs of war in Afghanistan.
Austin Vet Center sees uptick in calls as Taliban takes over Afghanistan
August 18, 2021 KXAN
KXAN covers research by Thomas Howard Suitt III on veteran and service member suicides since 9/11.
Resources for Teaching the Post-9/11 Wars
Costs of War Project research supports an interdisciplinary approach to teaching on the post-9/11 wars. This community is open to instructors, students, and researchers from all fields and the resources can be utilized for college, high school, and middle school educators. Do you have a resource...
Contributor: Norah Niland
UAI/United Against Inhumanity Executive Committee Member
Norah Niland is Co-Founder and Executive Member of United Against Inhumanity (UAI) and Research Associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peace-building at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She has spent much of her professional life with the...
Contributor: Noah Coburn
Political Anthropologist, Bennington College
Noah Coburn has conducted research in Afghanistan since 2005 with the United States Institute of Peace, the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, the Aga Khan Trust for culture and other organizations. He is author of Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Bazaar (2011) and Losing...
Contributor: Suzanne Fiederlein
Interim Director, Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, James Madison University
Since joining CISR in 1999, Suzanne Fiederlein has worked on a range of projects, including victim assistance and casualty data, Mine Risk Education, and International Mine Action Standards. As coordinator of management training, she directs the ERW/Mine Action Senior Managers’ Courses held at...
Contributor: Brian Smith
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nazarbayev University
Brian Smith is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nazarbayev University. He specializes in political theory, the history of political thought, and military ethics. He has recently published a book on Locke and immigration, John Locke, Territory, and Transmigration (Routledge, 2021)...
Economic Costs
Through Fiscal Year 2022, the United States federal government has spent and obligated $8 trillion dollars on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and elsewhere. This figure includes: direct Congressional war appropriations; war-related increases to the Pentagon base budget; veteran...
Contributor: Linda J. Bilmes
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor Linda J. Bilmes is a leading expert on budgeting and public finance. She represents the United States on the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration. She served as Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1998 to 2001...
Contributor: Astri Suhrke
Researcher Emerita
Astri Suhrke has been a professor of international relations at the American University in Washington DC, a journalist writing for Norwegian newspapers, and a senior researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway, where she is now researcher emerita. She has published widely on the...
Human Costs of U.S. Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones
March 2023
Human Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones, Afghanistan & Pakistan (Oct. 2001 – Aug. 2021); Iraq (March 2003 – March 2023); Syria (Sept. 2014 – March 2023); Yemen (Oct. 2002-Aug. 2021) and Other Post-9/11 War Zones Neta C. Crawford and Catherine Lutz March 15, 2023