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The Guards, Cooks, and Cleaners of the Afghan War: Migrant Contractors and the Cost of War

August 2017

Noah Coburn (2017)
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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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Latinos Lured to the Military

September 15, 2023 Texas Observer

Texas Observer cites Costs of War on the number of service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan on a piece on Latinos being recruited into the military. In connection with this piece, which was also published jointly with Latino USA, it ran on  40 NPR affiliate broadcasts on the human costs of the post-9/11 wars.

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Deserted: The U.S. Military's Sexual Assault Crisis as a Cost of War

Over the past decade, the U.S. military has implemented policies to promote gender equality, notably lifting the ban on women in combat roles in 2013 and opening all military jobs to women by 2016. Yet, even as U.S. military policy reforms during the “War on Terror” appear to reflect greater...

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News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World

Since the 2000s, national governments and terrorist groups – from Israel, Syria’s Assad regime and the United States to the Islamic State – have found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad means, from repressive policies to armed attack. All have killed journalists and helped to foster...

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The Afghan War, By The Numbers

August 17, 2021 BuzzFeed News

BuzzFeed News references Costs of War Project data on the budgetary costs of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. 

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Director: Stephanie Savell

Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Director, Costs of War
Stephanie Savell is a public anthropologist researching militarism, (in)security and activism in relation to the United States post-9/11 wars and policing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Under her leadership, the Costs of War project has produced research cited in thousands of media articles and...

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