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...
In the years following 9/11, human rights and civil liberties activists have voiced major concerns about the United States government and its allies’ treatment of terror suspects and ordinary U.S. citizens....
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...
Since 2001, between 1.9 and 3 million service members have served in post-9/11 war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many have been wounded or injured, and suffer from conditions ranging from brain injuries to hearing loss. From FY2001 to FY2020, federal spending on veteran care doubled from ...
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...
Large defense contractors have played a central role in fighting the post-9/11 wars. They have provided workers who have engaged in direct combat and provided supplies, logistical services, and arms to coalition forces and the new Iraqi and Afghan governments. Private contracting has grown to...
The insecurity that refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) face extends far beyond the guns and blasts of war. It includes lack of access to food, health care, housing, employment, and clean water and sanitation, as well as loss of community and homes. Forced displacement, especially...
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...
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...
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...
Over 7,000 U.S. service members died in post-9/11 war zones including Afghanistan and Iraq. Approximately 177,000 allies in the national military and police from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Syria died. Western allies such as the U.K., Germany, and Canada also have borne significant human...
Since 2001, between 1.9 and 3 million service members have served in post-9/11 war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and over half of them have deployed more than once. Many times that number of Americans have borne the costs of war as spouses, parents, children, and friends cope with their...
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.
December 23, 2022 Your Call on KALW
Costs of War was cited by Your Call on KALW on Afghanistan.
January 27, 2023 Politifact
A piece in Politifact (republished in Poynter) cites Costs of War estimates on the costs of the war in Afghanistan in a fact check of a social media post claiming we’ve spent more on Ukraine than Afghanistan.
People in war zones are killed in their homes, in markets, and on roadways, by bombs, bullets, fire, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and drones. Civilians die at checkpoints, as they are run off the road by military vehicles, when they step on mines or cluster bombs, as they collect wood or...
Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors....
Journalist
From 2014-2021, Peter Gill was based in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he covered politics, the environment, and human rights issues for the Nepali and international press. He speaks English and Nepali fluently, and Spanish, Hindi, and Wolof at an intermediate level. Gill currently reports on central...
Each year since the beginning of the U.S.-led post-9/11 wars, Congress has appropriated money for international assistance, including to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The popular understanding of international assistance programs is that they deliver immediate needed disaster relief, or...