February 13, 2020 National Catholic Reporter
The Costs of War Project found degradation of multiple natural resources due to the recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, says the National Catholic Reporter.
August 30, 2018 Defense One
The Pentagon released a report that said that the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria have cost over $1.5 trillion, but estimates from Brown University's Costs of War project peg the costs at $5.6 trillion.
November 8, 2018 Axios
Costs of War Co-Director Stephanie Savell writes, "The United States’ “war on terror” in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq has directly killed at least 480,000 people since 2001... This new body count signals that, far from diminishing, the war is only intensifying."
November 19, 2018 The Intercept
The Intercept features Costs of War findings on the human costs of war and speculates that Americans ignore the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because "the carnage challenges their strongly held self-perception that their country is a force for good in the world.”
November 15, 2020 The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times critiques Australian involvement in war in Afghanistan by quoting Costs of War statistics on local civilian deaths and consequences
March 22, 2019 The New Republic
This article argues against American military supremacy and draws on Costs of War estimates that war costs have reached $5.9 trillion, with 147,000 dead in Afghanistan alone.
September 9, 2019 The Washington Post Magazine
Longtime correspondant Kevin Maurer returns to Afghanistan and evalutes the U.S. war effort, which left 2,400 U.S. service members dead and more than 20,000 wounded, according to a report from the Costs of War Project.
September 19, 2019 Truthout
Truthout publishes co-director Stephanie Savell's analysis of Costs of War's first-time ever count of the human toll of explosive remnants of war in Afghanistan.
December 9, 2019 The Washington Post
An investigation by The Washington Post found that US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan, where the US has spent or appropriated between $934 billion and $978 billion, according to an estimate from the Costs of War Project.
September 27, 2017 Defense One
This article describes a Pentagon study that says that the average American taxpayer has spent $7,500 on combat operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, but qualifies this number by saying it would be far higher if the study had used Costs of War Project estimates of dollars spent on these wars, which are much more comprehensive than the figures used by the Pentagon.
October 7, 2017 Salon
Findings from the Costs of War project are cited in an opinion piece written by a West Point graduate and longtime journalist. "...according to the Cost of War Project at Brown University, our presence in Afghanistan has cost us $2 trillion over 16 years. Think of it. Two trillion dollars."
January 2, 2020 Salon
Salon reports on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, which continues into 2020. Costs of War estimates that close to 7,000 American soldiers and 7,800 U.S. contractors have died in 18 years of war.
October 18, 2011 RT
“With US national debt at some 15 trillion dollars, a potential $1 trillion in defense spending cuts on the table, and… the cost of war in Afghanistan and Iraq could reach some $4 trillion, does the American public have the stomach or the means to prosecute another war?”
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...
May 2015
Neta C. Crawford (2015)
January 2015
Luke Lattanzi-Silveus (2015)
May 4, 2021 Voice of America
Voice of America cites Costs of War statistics on the human and economic costs of the U.S. War on Terror in Afghanistan since 9/11.
August 17, 2021 BuzzFeed News
BuzzFeed News references Costs of War Project data on the budgetary costs of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
June 2011
Linda J. Bilmes (2011)