This paper examines the total costs of the war in Iraq and Syria, which are expected to exceed half a million human lives and $2.89 trillion. This budgetary figure includes costs to date, estimated at about $1.79 trillion, and the costs of veterans’ care through 2050. Since the United States...
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...
November 14, 2019 Military Times
Military Times discusses War and Health, a collection of ethnographies on the unseen effects of wars edited by Costs of War Project co-director Dr. Catherine Lutz.
January 4, 2018 Truthout
"The Costs of War Project has produced not just a map of the war on terror, 2015-2017, but the first map of its kind ever. It offers an astounding vision of Washington's counterterror wars across the globe: their spread, the deployment of US forces, the expanding ..."
June 30, 2020 The Washington Post
The proliferation of contractors at U.S. bases worldwide over the past two decades camouflages the true cost of war, according to a study on the commercialization of the U.S. war effort by economist Heidi Peltier, director of the Costs of War "20 Years of War" research series, based at Boston University's Pardee Center.
July 6, 2019 Truthout
"Just as there is no such thing as a green war, there is likewise no way to confront climate change unless we confront the war machine, and vice versa," says Truthout article in response to the Cost of War Project's recent climate change report.
May 12, 2017 The Atlantic
The Costs of War Project is referenced in this article on how few Americans are focused on the war in Afghanistan. "According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Afghan war has already cost the United States more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars."
May 14, 2021 Scientific American
Scientific American cites Costs of War data on the budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan and the direct war deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
June 6, 2023 Reuters
Reuters cited Costs of War on war and military emissions on a report about the climate impacts of the Ukraine war (reposted in Saltwire and The Japan Times).
November 21, 2018 Democracy Now
Democracy Now! interviews co-director Neta Crawford on the cost of the war on terror.
March 22, 2023 The War Horse
The War Horse cited Costs of War research on the budgetary costs of war.
August 18, 2021 KCRW
KCRW references Costs of War Project figures on the human and budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan in a podcast with researcher Costs of War Project Co-Founder and Co-Director Catherine Lutz.
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.
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."
February 3, 2019 The New York Times
NYTimes Editorial Board calls for ending the war in Afghanistan, drawing on evidence from Costs of War that the war has extended to 80 countries, cost $5.9 trillion, and resulted in a loss of half a million lives.
August 9, 2018 Foreign Policy in Focus
An analysis of U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan argues that it is part of a long-term strategy to gain regional influence and access to resources. The article cites the Costs of War Project, which estimates that more than 100,000 people have died in the war in Afghanistan and about 200,000 people have died in the war in Iraq.
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...
September 11, 2022 Truthout
Costs of War was cited in Truthout on the war on terror’s impact on Africa.
September 5, 2019 The Guardian
This opinion piece by co-director Stephanie Savell features the new Costs of War report on the human, financial, and political costs of the U.S. war on the group Al-Shabaab in Somalia.