These machines were supposed to help win the war in Afghanistan
August 19, 2021 Popular Science
Popular Science cites Costs of War project data on the number of people killed in the Afghanistan and Pakistan war zone
August 19, 2021 Popular Science
Popular Science cites Costs of War project data on the number of people killed in the Afghanistan and Pakistan war zone
August 19, 2021 New York Magazine
New York Magazine cites Costs of War Project research on the human costs of the war in Afghanistan.
April 25, 2024 Financial Times
Financial Times cited Costs of War on the untransparent process around war funding.
August 27, 2021 Common Dreams
Common Dreams cites Costs of War Project on the human and budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan.
August 20, 2024 The Filipino Chronicle
The Filipino Chronicle cited Costs of War on the human costs of war.
August 16, 2021 Newsweek
Newsweek cites Costs of War Project data on the budgetary costs of the war in Afghanistan.
March 15, 2013 Salon
“A new study by the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University has made strides in quantifying the Iraq War ten years after the U.S. invaded.”
March 14, 2013 Reuters
“The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion.”
December 27, 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek
“Direct federal spending on the war through 2012 will reach $823 billion, surpassing the $738 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars the U.S. spent on the Vietnam War”
November 2, 2011 Metro
“To date, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have resulted in 236,000 deaths and a cost of $3 trillion to $4 trillion, according to Brown University’s Costs of War project. 2010 was the bloodiest year for the military since the Afghan war began.”
August 20, 2011 Euronews
“While Crawford admits that Americans were united in their desire for revenge against the attackers, the choice to go to war was made out of ‘fear and anger.’… And the path of war, she says, is more costly and more bloody than the path of law enforcement.”
March 18, 2013 Los Angeles Times
“A study by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies finds that the war has cost $1.7 trillion so far, with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans.”
March 13, 2018 The Hill
On the 15th anniversary of the war in Iraq, Costs of War contributor William Hartung uses Costs of War Project figures in weighing the budgetary and human costs of the war.
July 18, 2022 The Independent
A piece in The Independent (Newfoundland, Canada) on food insecurity and the war in Ukraine cites Costs of War on the military’s carbon emissions.
February 22, 2023 CSPAN
Costs of War research on the war in Afghanistan was quoted on CSPAN.
February 21, 2025 Good Authority
Good Authority cites Costs of War on the human costs of war.
February 23, 2023 Sri Lanka Guardian
The Sri Lanka Guardian cited Costs of War on the costs of caring for post-9/11 war veterans.
August 2, 2022 News Nation
NewsNation cited Costs of War in a segment on the costs of war in Afghanistan. It appeared on several local news stations in Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, New York, and Montana.
March 6, 2023 WRBL
WRBL (Columbus, Ga.) covered a symposium on the Iraq war featuring Costs of War co-director Catherine Lutz.
March 9, 2023 Tom Dispatch
Costs of War was cited in TomDispatch on Iraqi civilian deaths during 20 years of war (reposted in DailyKos and Salon.)