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Torture

After launching the post-9/11 wars, the Bush Administration labeled detained persons as “unlawful enemy combatants” — rather than “prisoners of war” — in an attempt to circumvent United States legal obligations under the Geneva Conventions and other international treaties, as well as U.S....

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High time for review

September 15, 2022 The Dawn

The Dawn cited Costs of War figures on deaths in Pakistan during the post-9/11 wars.

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Contributor: Robert Miller

Associate Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Vanderbilt University
Robert Miller was the principal investigator in a project evaluating service members with exercise limitation following service in Iraq and Afghanistan (“Constrictive Bronchiolitis in Soldiers Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan,” New England Journal of Medicine, 2011). He is now collaborating...

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The Reckless Man’s Case for Bombing Iran

March 27, 2015 Defense One

“According to a 2013 study by the Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the United States more than $4 trillion.”

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Contributor: Nadje Al-Ali

Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Brown University, Director of Middle East Studies undergraduate concentration at Brown University
Nadje Al-Ali’s publications include We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War (edited with Deborah Al-Najjar, 2013); What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (co-authored with Nicola Pratt, 2009); and Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007),...

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Constant Killing

May 23, 2024 TomDispatch

Nick Turse cited Costs of War research in TomDispatch. (reposted in KOS)

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Project 2025

July 28, 2024 Tom Dispatch

Costs of War was cited in a piece from the Poor Peoples Campaign in TomDispatch (reposted in Counterpunch).  

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The Bush years

August 1, 2024 The Timberjay

Costs of War was cited in The Timberjay (Minn.).  

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