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January 20, 2022 Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Finance cites Costs of War Project data on the human cost of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2001.
January 20, 2022 Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Finance cites Costs of War Project data on the human cost of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2001.
March 14, 2022 The Conversation
The Conversation cites a report by William Hartung about Pentagon spending on military contracts during the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
July 17, 2022
Costs of War was cited in Mandiner on the costs of war in Afghanistan.
August 2, 2022 News Nation
NewsNation cited Costs of War in a segment on the costs of war in Afghanistan. It appeared on several local news stations in Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, New York, and Montana.
September 18, 2021 Newsweek
Newsweek cites a report by Neta C. Crawford on Afghanistan's rising civlian death toll due to airstrikes.
August 28, 2022 IOL
Costs of War was cited in an op-ed in IOL News (South Africa) about civilians killed in Afghanistan.
October 15, 2021 The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal cites Costs of War Project data on the civlian death toll of the war in Afghanistan.
November 11, 2021 The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News references a report by Linda Blimes on the costs of care for veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
September 10, 2011 Pilot Online
“Of the roughly 2.3 million service members who have deployed in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan… Many have deployed four, five or even six times – numbers that were unheard of before the attacks and subsequent wars.”
September 3, 2011 The Economist
“The costs-of-war project at Brown University thinks that on a ‘very conservative’ estimate about 137,000 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan and that the wars have created more than 7.8m refugees in these countries.”
August 19, 2011 The Dallas Morning News
“We were particularly alarmed by reports last week outlining military expenses exceeding $1.3 trillion since the 9/11 attacks. A Brown University study… puts the Iraq and Afghanistan wars’ cost at something closer to $4 trillion.”
July 27, 2011 The New York Times
"Ending the current wars will not lower veterans costs; indeed, they will rise ever more steeply for decades to come as the population of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan expands, ages and becomes more infirm."
September 6, 2011 The Independent
“The most comprehensive study of the military actions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan concluded that the price tag is $4 trillion and rising… The US has already paid $185bn in interest on its debt-funded war spending, and another $1 trillion could accrue in interest alone through 2020.”
June 2011
Neta C. Crawford (2011)
March 27, 2015 Defense One
“According to a 2013 study by the Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the United States more than $4 trillion.”
February 24, 2015 The Providence Journal
“Brown University researchers say the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have cost Rhode Island more than $70 million to date, and will cost millions more.”
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have contributed to significant economic setbacks in the United States, through lost opportunities for investment in public infrastructure and services and higher borrowing rates. Contrary to the widespread belief that war is a particularly effective way to create j...
July 9, 2013 The National Interest
“Brown University’s Costs of War project has estimated that American military expenditures on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan will ultimately cost over $4 trillion dollars—fully one quarter of the entire U.S. national debt.”