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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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Julian Castro at Stanford

December 5, 2019 Stanford in Government

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro speaks at Stanford on foreign policy and national security, citing Costs of War estimates that post-9/11 wars have cost the American people over $6.4 trillion dollars and 800,000 lives.

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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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