Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University
Madiha Tahir is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and the co-director of the Yale Ethnography Hub. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of technology and war with interest and expertise in digital war, surveillance, militarism, and empire and technology studies from below. Her work...
Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sheffield
Jennifer Greenburg is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Sheffield in the UK. She is a feminist political geographer working on areas of war, gender, and humanitarianism. Her first book, At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor Linda J. Bilmes is a leading expert on budgeting and public finance. She represents the United States on the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration. She served as Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1998 to 2001...
Senior Data Scientist, UCSF; Research Associate, Berkeley Population Center; UC Berkeley
Ryan Edwards' studies focus on the interrelated causes and consequences of health, mortality, and economic well being.
SEE PAPER > Post-9/11 War Spending, Debt, and the Macroeconomy (2011)
Professor of Economics, Director of Cultures Program, and Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Western New England University
Anita Dancs writes on the military, the U.S. economy, and the economics of war. She has been interviewed extensively by national media including CNN, CNBC, and Marketplace, and her research has been covered by the Washington Post, New York Times, and Associated Press among others. Dancs was...
Associate Professor, SAS, Medical Anthropology, Rutgers University
In 2008, Omar Dewachi graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. Dewachi has worked on Iraqi medical doctors, their role in the formation of the Iraqi state, migration to the UK and integration in the British National Health Service (NHS). Dewachi’s current research is...
Interim Director, Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, James Madison University
Since joining CISR in 1999, Suzanne Fiederlein has worked on a range of projects, including victim assistance and casualty data, Mine Risk Education, and International Mine Action Standards. As coordinator of management training, she directs the ERW/Mine Action Senior Managers’ Courses held at...
Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, military spending creates fewer jobs than the same amount of money would have, if invested in other sectors. Clean energy and health care spending create 50% more jobs t...
President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy and President of True North Research
Lisa Graves has testified as an expert witness before US Congress on national security. Graves’ former leadership posts include serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the US Department of Justice; Deputy Chief of the Article III Judges Division of the US...
Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, Colby College
A past President of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropologists and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Catherine Besteman's books include Militarized Global Apartheid (2020), Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (2016), Transforming Cape Town (2008), Unraveling Somalia (1999...
Director, Federal Reform, Campaign Legal Center
SEE PAPER > International Law and the War on Terror (2011)
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Hugh Gusterson teaches and conducts research on militarism, nuclear weapons, and ethics, among other topics. In the United States and Russia, he has studied the culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists. Gusterson is the author of Nuclear Rites (1996), People of the Bomb ...
November 2019
Summary of War Spending, in Billions of Current Dollars(Rounded to the Nearest Billion)FY2001-FY2020...
Researcher, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Jessica Stern is the author of several books and numerous articles on terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff, and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Stern is a member of the Trilateral...
January 10, 2018 Le Monde Diplomatique
"...thanks to the invaluable work of a single dedicated group, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, we finally have a visual representation of the true extent of the war on terror."
Independent Scholar, writer, editor, and curator
Jennifer Heath is an independent scholar, award-winning activist and organizer, cultural journalist, curator and the author and/or editor of sixteen books of fiction and non-fiction, recently Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice, with Ashraf Zahedi (University of Michigan...
January 4, 2018 The Huffington Post
"More than a decade and a half after an American president spoke of 60 or more countries as potential targets, thanks to the invaluable work of a single dedicated group, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, we finally have a visual representation of the true extent of the war on terror. That we’ve had to wait so long should tell us something about the nature of this era of permanent war."
Over the 20-year period of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense paid various companies about $108 billion in contracts for work performed in the country, according to our latest research. This is in addition to the trillions of dollars spent on Department of...
Suicide rates among active military personnel and veterans of the post-9/11 wars are reaching new peaks. This report uses governmental data, secondary literature, and interviews to document a suicide epidemic that is emerging among post-9/11 fighters as part of a broader mental health crisis. ...