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A Study the Defense Industry Will Hate

June 1, 2017 Defense One

"Remember how Lockheed Martin tried to save its F-22 with an ad campaign touting not stealth or supercruise, but American jobs? That pitch might not be any more effective the next time around. A new study from Brown University’s Costs of War project found domestic spending spurs more jobs than military spending."

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America’s Afghan Victims

September 18, 2013 The Nation

"Perhaps the best account of casualties was part of the Costs of War report prepared by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies…”

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A Letter to Joe Biden

October 14, 2023 Countercurrents

A piece in Countercurrents on Biden’s speech on Israel cites Costs of War on civilian deaths in the post-9/11 wars.

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Unfinished Portraits: Iraq and Afghanistan

July 2, 2013 Counter Punch

“According to the Costs of War project … at least 330,000 people have been killed by direct violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. This does not include hundreds of thousands of other deaths that occurred because of the wars.”

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The US security complex: Too big to fail

October 29, 2011 Al Jazeera

“A recent report from Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies estimated that the ultimate cost of both the Afghan and Iraq wars could range up to $4.4tn … those trillions don't include the global war on terror.”

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How America Lost Its Nerve Abroad

June 13, 2013 The Atlantic

“The latest reckoning of the costs of that war come to a staggering $2.2 trillion … —an amount that could turn just about anyone into a deficit hawk.”

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