LAST OBAMA BUDGET (2017) VS. PROPOSED TRUMP BUDGET (2018)
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Contributor: Bridget Guarasci
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College
Bridget Guarasci is an environmental anthropologist whose work examines how war and conflict generate ecological life in the Arab majority world. Her book manuscript Ecology of War: Iraq’s Marshes on the Battlegrounds of War considers how multinational investments in the biodiversity conservation...
U.S. Veterans & Military Families
Since 2001, between 1.9 and 3 million service members have served in post-9/11 war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and over half of them have deployed more than once. Many times that number of Americans have borne the costs of war as spouses, parents, children, and friends cope with their...
Civilians Killed & Wounded
People in war zones are killed in their homes, in markets, and on roadways, by bombs, bullets, fire, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and drones. Civilians die at checkpoints, as they are run off the road by military vehicles, when they step on mines or cluster bombs, as they collect wood or...
U.S. & Allied Killed and Wounded
Over 7,000 U.S. service members died in post-9/11 war zones including Afghanistan and Iraq. Approximately 177,000 allies in the national military and police from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Syria died. Western allies such as the U.K., Germany, and Canada also have borne significant human...
U.S. Federal and State Budgets
The U.S. budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan from FY2001-FY2022 totaled over 2.3 trillion dollars. The estimated U.S. budgetary costs of the wars in Iraq and Syria from FY2003-FY2023 totaled 2.9 trillion dollars....
Teaching the Costs of War
The Costs of War project provides teaching resources for educators seeking to engage their students in interdisciplinary conversations about the post-9/11 wars and their costs, as well as alternatives for a de-militarized future. Educators can access resources like multimedia, visual aids and...
Contributor: Jason Davidson
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington
Prof. Davidson is the author of four books: America’s Entangling Alliances: 1778 to the Present (Georgetown University Press, 2020); with Fabrizio Coticchia Italian Foreign Policy During Matteo Renzi’s Government: A Domestically-Focused Outsider and the World (Lexington Books, 2019); The Origins...
Contributor: Roberto González
Professor of Cultural Anthropology at San José State University
Roberto J. González is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses upon science, technology, and society; militarization and culture; processes of social and cultural control; and ethics in social science. He has conducted ethnographic research in Latin America and the United States. Professor...
Director: Catherine Lutz
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor Emerita of Anthropology and International Studies, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, Costs of War
Catherine Lutz is the co-founder and strategic advisor of the Costs of War project. Lutz is the author of numerous books on the U.S. military and its bases and personnel, including "War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan" (ed. with A. Mazzarino, 2019), ...
Refugees & Health
The insecurity that refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) face extends far beyond the guns and blasts of war. It includes lack of access to food, health care, housing, employment, and clean water and sanitation, as well as loss of community and homes. Forced displacement, especially...
The Ukraine Crisis: An Opportunity to Teach on Nonviolent Resistance
Teaching on the Ukraine Crisis...
United States Spending on Israel’s Military Operations and Related U.S. Operations in the Region, October 7, 2023-September 30, 2024
U.S. spending on Israel’s military operations and related U.S operations in the region total at least $22.76 billion and counting. This estimate is conservative; while it includes approved security assistance funding since October 7, 2023, supplemental funding for regional operations, and an...
Environmental Costs
The U.S. Department of Defense is the world’s single largest institutional consumer of oil – and as a result, one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters. ...
From a Militarized to a Decarbonized Economy: A Case for Conversion
When the U.S. military budget decreased after the Cold War, military contractors initiated a strategy to protect their profits by more widely connecting jobs to military spending. They did this by spreading their subcontracting chains across the United States and creating an entrenched war...
Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests
May 15, 2023 The Washington Post
The Costs of War report 'How Death Outlives War' was covered exclusively in the Washington Post.
Contributor: Ken MacLeish
Assistant Professor, Center for Medicine, Health and Society, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
Ken MacLeish is the author of Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community (Princeton University Press, 2013), an ethnography exploring the everyday experience of war for soldiers, military families, and other military community members. His current research examines how...
Social & Political Costs
U.S. policymakers scarcely considered alternatives to war in the aftermath of 9/11 or in debating the invasion of Iraq. Some of those alternative paradigms for addressing the problem of terror attacks are still available to the U.S....