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Telling the Truth About the Cost of War

November 23, 2017 The New York Times

The NYT Editorial Board cites the Costs of War project as showing that over 200,000 civilians have died in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan since 2001.

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Contributor: Matthew Evangelista

President White Professor of History and Political Science in the Department of Government at Cornell University
Matthew Evangelista teaches courses in international and comparative politics. He is the author of five books including: The Chechen Wars (2002); Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror (2008); and Gender, Nationalism, and War (2011). He is the editor of Peace Studies, 4 vols. (2005), and co-editor of...

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The Environmental Costs of War

March 16, 2022 The Brunswick News

The Brunswick News references a report by Neta Crawford on the environmental costs of the U.S. post-9/11 wars. 

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The cost of the Israel-Hamas war

October 7, 2024 MarketPlace

Marketplace cited our latest reports on U.S. spending on Israel's military operations and related U.S. operations in the region and the human toll from Oct 7, 2023 forward.  

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Contributor: Anila Daulatzai

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Anila Daulatzai has a PhD in Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University, and is currently a 2020-21 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on heroin users in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and on the return...

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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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Contributor: William D. Hartung

Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His work focuses on the arms industry and U.S. military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the...

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