Jennifer Walkup Jayes is a researcher and organizer. She earned her Master's in Public Anthropology from American University, where her thesis centered on alternatives to the war paradigm for counterterrorism. Jennifer works with refugees in Pittsburgh, PA. ...
Since late 2001, the United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $8 trillion through Fiscal Year 2022 in budgetary costs related to and caused by the post-9/11 wars — an estimated $5.8 trillion in appropriations in current dollars and an additional minimum of $2.2 trill...
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
Lyle J. Goldstein is a Visiting Professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, he is investigating the costs of great power competition with both China and Russia in association with the Costs of War Project at Watson. He is also assisting in...
January 27, 2023 Politifact
A piece in Politifact (republished in Poynter) cites Costs of War estimates on the costs of the war in Afghanistan in a fact check of a social media post claiming we’ve spent more on Ukraine than Afghanistan.
November 25, 2019 Task & Purpose
Task & Purpose cites Costs of War Project research on the human cost of post-9/11 wars and U.S. spending on the Global War on Terror.
April 14, 2023 War on The Rocks
Costs of War was mentioned in a commentary on War on The Rocks on the Iraq war anniversary.
September 11, 2018 Common Dreams
The Pentagon's estimate of how much the War on Terror has cost since 9/11 - $1.5 trillion -- is making headlines, despite independent estimates such as that by the Watson Institute's Costs of War Project that have pegged the figure far higher, at $5.6 trillion. This article details why the Costs of War Project's figures are far higher than the government's.
Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies
Miriam Pemberton has studied the U.S. military economy and the means of shrinking it down to size for decades, first as Director of the National Commissionfor Economic Conversion and Disarmament and then as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. With Lawrence Korb, she headed the...
August 19, 2020 Rolling Stone
The Costs of War Project estimates that the war in Iraq has cost American taxpayers $2 trillion since 2003.
The Costs of War project conducts and publishes research about the ongoing consequences of the United States post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere; the costs of global U.S. military operations; and the domestic effects of U.S. military spending. Created in 2010 and housed at Brown...
December 29, 2022 New York Sun
Costs of War was cited in the New York Sun on the costs of the war on terror.
The Pentagon's base budget has increased substantially due to the post-9/11 wars, over and above the amounts appropriated for Overseas Contingency Operations, the war fund. For instance, non-emergency, base budget appropriations have included rising personnel pay and benefits, weapons procurement...
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have contributed to significant economic setbacks in the United States, through lost opportunities for investment in public infrastructure and services and higher borrowing rates. Contrary to the widespread belief that war is a particularly effective way to create j...
Since 2001, between 1.9 and 3 million service members have served in post-9/11 war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many have been wounded or injured, and suffer from conditions ranging from brain injuries to hearing loss. From FY2001 to FY2020, federal spending on veteran care doubled from ...
Anthropologist and Film-Maker
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is an anthropologist and film-maker with extensive fieldwork experience in Israel/Palestine and in Greece. Her first book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford, 2019), has won five major book awards, and examines waste management in the...
October 2024
U.S. SUPPORT TO ISRAEL The attached paper calculates United States spending on Israel’s military operations, $17.9 billion, plus related U.S. operations in the region, totaling $22.76 billion from October 7, 2023 to September 30, 2024. Posted on October 7, 2024
November 14, 2018 CNBC
This story features the Costs of War Project's latest reports on money spent and lives lost in the war on terror since 9/11. It includes a Costs of War video.
May 21, 2019 Just Security
The Cost of War Project's estimated $5.9 trillion cost of post-9/11 wars cited in discussion of potential repeal of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
November 15, 2018 Common Dreams
"We were told to expect wars that would be quick, cheap, effective and beneficial to the U.S. interest," said Neta Crawford, the author of the study, at a news conference hosted by Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) on Tuesday. "The U.S. continues to fund the wars by borrowing, so this is a conservative estimate of the consequences of funding the war as if on a credit card, in which we are only paying interest even as we continue to spend."