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)
June 2011
Linda J. Bilmes (2011)
October 12, 2016 AlJazeera
"The Costs of War Project comprises 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners and physicians, and has been working since 2011 to document the full human, material, and political costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria - and to ask for an official accounting. The project's findings show that over the past 15 years, US conflicts have cost more than 600,000 military and civilian lives, resulted in more than seven million refugees and displaced people, and run-up perhaps nearly $13 trillion in financial costs over the lifetimes of the conflicts."
October 20, 2016 History News Network
Taking these and other factors into account, a recent study at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the cost to U.S. taxpayers of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at nearly $5 trillion thus far. According to the report’s author, Neta Crawford, this figure is “so large as to be almost incomprehensible.”
April 10, 2015 Al Jazeera America
“The Costs of War project at Brown University estimated in June 2014 that the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan would cost taxpayers ‘close to $4.4 trillion, not including future interest costs on borrowing for the wars,’ through the end of 2014.”
October 16, 2014 Color Lines
“According to The Costs of War project at Brown University, the total costs for the second Iraq War and the ongoing one in Afghanistan is $4.4 trillion.”
The Costs of War project conducts and publishes research about the ongoing consequences of the United States post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere; the costs of global U.S. military operations; and the domestic effects of U.S. military spending. Created in 2010 and housed at Brown...
November 28, 2012 50.50 Inclusive Democracy
“In early July this year, in the midst of the largest military spending in human history, the Watson Institute at Brown University released their research report on the costs of US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.”
September 6, 2011 Marketplace
“The fact is that we have now spent trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan, all of which has been borrowed. The consequences of that have been, of course, an enormous run-up in our national debt.”
August 21, 2011 Detroit Free Press
“When congressional cost-cutters meet later this year to decide on trimming the federal budget, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could represent juicy targets. But how much do the wars actually cost U.S. taxpayers?”
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 31, 2022 POGO
POGO cited Costs of War on civilian death estimates in Afghanistan and Iraq.
September 27, 2022 Arab News
Costs of War was cited in Arab News on civilian deaths in Afghanistan.