Educator Spotlight: Dr. Jennifer Greenburg, Assistant Professor of International Relations
Teaching Costs of War: A Q&A With Dr. Jennifer Greenburg
Search Results for "Afghanistan"
Staff: Heidi Peltier
Senior Researcher, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Director of Programs, Costs of War
Heidi Peltier has been a contributing author to the Costs of War project since its inception in 2010 and joined the staff in 2019....
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.
Educator Spotlight: Dr. David Vine, Professor of Anthropology
Teaching Costs of War: A Q&A With Professor David Vine
'The Answer Cannot Be More War,' House Dem Says After Deadly Attack in Afghanistan
August 27, 2021 Common Dreams
Common Dreams cites Costs of War Project on the human and budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan.
Indirect Deaths in the Post-9/11 Wars
May 2023
INDIRECT DEATHS The graphic, and the accompanying report, illuminate the causal pathways that have led to an estimated 3.6-3.7 million indirect deaths in post-9/11 war zones, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Posted on May 15, 2023
As Its Longest War Comes to an End, the U.S. Should Seek to End All Wars
May 14, 2021 Scientific American
Scientific American cites Costs of War data on the budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan and the direct war deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Guards, Cooks, and Cleaners of the Afghan War: Migrant Contractors and the Cost of War
August 2017
Noah Coburn (2017)
Paper (pdf)
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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Opinion | Sanders & Lee: Congress Just Told Trump To Get U.S. Troops Out of Yemen. Next, Afghanistan?
April 4, 2019 USA Today
Senators Bernie Sanders and Mike Lee call for a serious Congressional discussion of when and where in the world to intervene, and who decides. They cite Costs of War figures on the $6 trillion costs of longest war in American history.
Contributor: Antonio De Lauri
Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute
Antonio De Lauri is a Research Professor at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, and the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies. He has conducted ethnographic research in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Europe and has published extensively on issues related to war, human rights, freedom,...
What Has Not Been Counted
The post-9/11 wars have had many budgetary consequences that the Costs of War project has not yet fully assessed. Budget estimates do not include: The opportunity costs of the U.S. choice to pay for war rather than other social investments, like public health Some expenses related to veterans, ...
U.S. cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting
June 29, 2011 Reuters
“When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America's wars. Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the U.S. Treasury and ignores more imposing costs yet to come, according to a study released on Wednesday.”
Contributor: Robert Miller
Associate Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Vanderbilt University
Robert Miller was the principal investigator in a project evaluating service members with exercise limitation following service in Iraq and Afghanistan (“Constrictive Bronchiolitis in Soldiers Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan,” New England Journal of Medicine, 2011). He is now collaborating...
Human Costs
At least 940,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan. The number of people who have been wounded or have fallen ill as a result of the conflicts is far higher, as is the number of civilians who have died indirectly as a result of the d...
Compared with NATO Allies, U.S. Troops Were Less Likely to be Killed in Afghanistan
May 13, 2021 Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba cites Costs of War research by Jason Davidson on the disproportionate costs suffered by U.S. allies in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Visions of war and wealth in the Middle East
August 9, 2018 Foreign Policy in Focus
An analysis of U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan argues that it is part of a long-term strategy to gain regional influence and access to resources. The article cites the Costs of War Project, which estimates that more than 100,000 people have died in the war in Afghanistan and about 200,000 people have died in the war in Iraq.
Rekha Basu: My mother warned that America's 1980s allies threatened women in Afghanistan. They've continued to, as our enemies.
May 11, 2021 Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register cites Costs of War data on the $6.4 trillion that the U.S. has spent on the war on terror since 2001.