The Pentagon's base budget has increased substantially due to the post-9/11 wars, over and above the amounts appropriated for Overseas Contingency Operations, the war fund. For instance, non-emergency, base budget appropriations have included rising personnel pay and benefits, weapons procurement...
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September 18, 2021 New York Post
New York Post cites Costs of War Project data on the humanitarian costs of the war in Afghanistan.
September 27, 2021 Bloomberg
Bloomberg cites research by Neta C. Crawford on the civilian death toll in Afghanistan as a result of airstrikes
September 29, 2021 MilitaryTimes
MilitaryTimes cites Costs of War Project data on the human and budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan.
October 22, 2021 The Nation.
The Nation references a report by William Hartung on private contracting and the total budgetary cost of the war in Afghanistan.
August 19, 2021 New York Magazine
New York Magazine cites Costs of War Project research on the human costs of the war in Afghanistan.
This paper assesses the massive costs of U.S. unlawful transfers, secret detentions, and torture after September 11 – to the rights of victims and suspects, to U.S. taxpayers, and to U.S. moral authority and counterterrorism efforts worldwide, ultimately jeopardizing universal human rights...
January 24, 2022 C-Span
C-SPAN features Katrina vanden Heuvel citing Costs of War research on the monetary cost of the war in Afghanistan.
August 27, 2021 The Washington Post
The Washington Post covers Costs of War Project data on the human costs of the war in Afghanistan.
March 11, 2022 The Washington Post
The Washington Post cites Costs of War data on the number of troops that served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
August 31, 2021 The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe references Costs of War data on the human and economic costs of the war in Afghanistan, including research by Linda Bilmes on post-9/11 war funding.
September 1, 2021 The Intercept
The Intercept covers data by Neta Crawford and Catherine Lutz on the human and budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan.
September 1, 2021 The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times references Costs of War Project data on the budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan.
August 2, 2022 EuroNews
Costs of War was cited in Euronews on Afghanistan war deaths.
October 5, 2022 Mother Jones
Costs of War was cited by Mother Jones on civilian deaths in Afghanistan in an article about congressional candidate Joe Kent.