Contributor: Brendan M. Fischer
Director, Federal Reform, Campaign Legal Center
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Contributor: Hugh Gusterson
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 ...
Contributor: Catherine Besteman
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...
Mapping a World From Hell: 76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington's War on Terror
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."
Contributor: Lisa Graves
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...
Contributor: Jennifer Heath
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...
Mapping a World From Hell
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."
Wartime Contract Spending in Afghanistan Since 2001
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...
High Suicide Rates among United States Service Members and Veterans of the Post-9/11 Wars
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. ...
LAST OBAMA BUDGET (2017) VS. PROPOSED TRUMP BUDGET (2018)
What are the consequences of Trump’s proposal?...
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...
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), ...
Economic Costs
Costs of War research tallies U.S. spending on war and military operations and examines the broader economic consequences of this spending. ...
The Ukraine Crisis: An Opportunity to Teach on Nonviolent Resistance
Teaching on the Ukraine Crisis...
U.S. Military, Veterans, Contractors & Allies
During the post-9/11 wars from 2001-2021, between 1.9 and 3 million U.S. service members served in military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and related theaters, and over half of them deployed more than once. These men and women served longer tours of duty, had higher levels of exposure to...