Costs of War
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The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

$14 Trillion spent on Pentagon since Afghanistan

Surveillance and War Tech https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/rights/surveillance

  • Executive Order 12333
  • Section 215 and 702 of Patriot Act
  • HSIN (DHS)

Big Tech and War https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/siliconvalley

Total Information Awareness https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/surveillance

7,057 dead military post-911 and 30,187 suicides

Which means deceased members of the US Armed Forces are more 3 times more likely to have killed themselves than to have been killed in action. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/killed

432,093 direct civilian deaths, 3.6-3.8 million related harmed, 7.6 million child malnutrition https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians

40℅ (increase to over half in next decades) of vets with lifetime disability https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/veterans