The United States is expected to spend nearly $6 trillion through 2018 on government-wide costs related to the wars waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since 2001, reveals a study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
According to Brown University’s Cost of War project analysis, authored by Neta Crawford, the total estimated cost of U.S. wars between 2001 and 2018 amounts to about $23,386 per individual American taxpayer, which is more than three times the amount ($7,740) calculated by the Pentagon.
The Pentagon’s study, dubbed the “Estimated Cost to Each Taxpayer for the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria,” places the total authorized war spending on those conflicts between 2001 and 2018 at $1.5 trillion.
Unlike assessments conducted by the Pentagon and other analysts, Crawford’s estimate takes into account trillions in conflict-linked spending appropriated mainly through the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, and Veteran Affairs.
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Those 52,500 injuries don't include PTSD and other mental health issues, right?
ReplyDeleteThat's right 1:56PM. I fail to understand why we did not take on this enemy with extreme prejudice and totally eradicate them. Unfortunately, some good people would have gotten caught up in with the bad but hey, that is war.
ReplyDeletePoison gas and nuclear bombs are cheaper, all Muslims and their countries need to be eliminated from this earth!
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