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...
Costs of War research examines the human toll of U.S. military operations and spending, for U.S. service members, contractors, and allies; and for civilians killed and displaced. An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, an...
Military spending shapes the balance of political power in the United States. More than half of the military budget goes to contractor companies, especially weapons makers. As contractors obtain lucrative contracts, they gain not only in profitability but also in political influence. They use...
The economic costs of military interventions take many forms, including the increased costs to the federal budget – including not only the costs borne by the Department of Defense, but also increased costs for veterans’ benefits. In the case of the post-9/11 wars, including and beyond the U.S....
Costs of War research documents the social and political costs of U.S. war and militarism. These include the domestic effects of U.S. wars on populations at home....
The United States-led post-9/11 wars have expanded across the globe, now in over 78 countries. The U.S. is deploying airstrikes against militant targets, engaging in combat with militants, leading military exercises and exporting a militarized counterterrorism model to dozens of countries through...
During the post-9/11 wars from 2001-2021, between 1.9 and 3 million U.S. service members served in military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and related theaters, and over half of them deployed more than once. These men and women served longer tours of duty, had higher levels of exposure to...
Costs of War research tallies U.S. spending on war and military operations and examines the broader economic consequences of this spending. ...
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...
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
November 2019
Human Cost of Post - 9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War ZonesAfghanistan and Pakistan (October 2001 - October 2019); Iraq (March 2003 - October 2019); Syria (September 2014 - October 2019); Yemen (October 2002 - October 2019); and Other1...
Independent Scholar, writer, editor, and curator
Jennifer Heath is an independent scholar, award-winning activist and organizer, cultural journalist, curator and the author and/or editor of sixteen books of fiction and non-fiction, recently Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice, with Ashraf Zahedi (University of Michigan...
The post-9/11 wars included many abuses of human rights and civil liberties – costs that began during the wars and continue to the present day. The U.S. government conducted detention without trial, torture, labor abuses, and expanded surveillance and militarized policing. Today, Today, many of...
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Anila Daulatzai has a PhD in Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University, and is currently a 2020-21 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on heroin users in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and on the return...
Western allies of the United States have borne significant costs in the post-9/11 wars, in terms of both dollars and lives. This report’s key findings indicate that, besides the United States, the top five countries to send troops to the war in Afghanistan were the United Kingdom, Germany, France...
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington
Prof. Davidson is the author of four books: America’s Entangling Alliances: 1778 to the Present (Georgetown University Press, 2020); with Fabrizio Coticchia Italian Foreign Policy During Matteo Renzi’s Government: A Domestically-Focused Outsider and the World (Lexington Books, 2019); The Origins...
August 20, 2022 Business Insider
Business Insider cited Costs of War around the anniversary of the end of the Afghanistan war and the effort to get U.S. employees out of Afghanistan.
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Samuel Hall
Nassim Majidi leads Samuel Hall, a social enterprise dedicated to research in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She has worked in Afghanistan since 2007 and Africa 2014, based in Kabul and Nairobi, to inform humanitarian and development programming. With a team of 50+ researchers from across the...
November 10, 2022 ABC News Australia
ABC (Australia) cites Costs of War in an article about new research showing more children died from British military actions in Afghanistan than previously thought between 2006 and 2014.