{"id":194078,"date":"2021-09-06T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=194078"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:26:28","slug":"costs-of-war-project-sep-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/costs-of-war-project-sep-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Costs of War Project &#8211; Sep 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/brown_watson_large-logo-e1542551425909.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/brown_watson_large-logo-e1542551425909.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 Sep 2021<\/em> &#8211; Summary of Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At least <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2019\/direct-war-death-toll-2001-801000\" >801,000<\/a> people have died due to direct war violence, including armed forces on all sides of the conflicts, contractors, civilians, journalists, and humanitarian workers.<\/li>\n<li>Many times more have died indirectly in these wars, due to ripple effects like malnutrition, damaged infrastructure, and environmental degradation.<\/li>\n<li>Over 335,000\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/human\/civilians\" >civilians<\/a> have been killed in direct violence by all parties to these conflicts.<\/li>\n<li>Over 7,000\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/human\/military\/killed\" >US soldiers<\/a> have died in the wars.<\/li>\n<li>We do not know the full extent of how many US service members returning from these wars became <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/human\/military\/wounded\" >injured or ill<\/a> while deployed.<\/li>\n<li>Many deaths and injuries among <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/human\/military\/killed\" >US contractors<\/a> have not been reported as required by law, but it is likely that approximately 8,000 have been killed.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/files\/cow\/imce\/papers\/2020\/Displacement_Vine%20et%20al_Costs%20of%20War%202020%2009%2008.pdf\" >37 million<\/a> people have been displaced by the post-9\/11 wars in Afghanstan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and the Philippines.<\/li>\n<li>The US government is conducting counterterror activities in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/papers\/2021\/USCounterterrorismOperations\" >85 countries<\/a>, vastly expanding this war across the globe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The post-9\/11 wars have contributed significantly to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/papers\/ClimateChangeandCostofWar\" >climate change<\/a>. The Defense Department is one of the world\u2019s top greenhouse gas emitters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The wars have been accompanied by erosions in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/social\/rights\" >civil liberties and human rights<\/a> at home and abroad.<\/li>\n<li>The human and economic costs of these wars will continue for decades with some costs, such as the financial costs of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/human\/veterans\" >US veterans\u2019 care<\/a>, not peaking until mid-century.<\/li>\n<li>Most US government funding of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/economic\/budget\/foreign\" >reconstruction efforts<\/a> in Iraq and Afghanistan has gone towards arming security forces in both countries. Much of the money allocated to humanitarian relief and rebuilding civil society has been lost to fraud, waste, and abuse.<\/li>\n<li>The cost of the post-9\/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and elsewhere totals about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2019\/budgetary-costs-post-911-wars-through-fy2020-64-trillion\" >$6.4 trillion<\/a>. This does not include future interest costs on borrowing for the wars.<\/li>\n<li>The ripple effects on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/economic\/economy\" >US economy<\/a> have also been significant, including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/economic\/economy\/employment\" >job loss<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/costs\/economic\/economy\/macroeconomic\" >interest rate increases<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Compelling <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/files\/cow\/imce\/papers\/2011\/Coping%20with%20911.pdf\" >alternatives<\/a> to war were scarcely considered in the aftermath of 9\/11 or in the discussion about war against Iraq.\u00a0Some of those alternatives are still available to the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/\" >TO READ FULL REPORT Go to Original \u2013 brown.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\tOver 929,000 people died from violence in post-9\/11 wars; several times as many from effects of war<br \/>\n\u2022\tOver 387,000 civilians killed<br \/>\n\u2022\t38 million refugees and displaced persons<br \/>\n\u2022\tUS price tag over $8 trillion<br \/>\n\u2022\tUS government leads counterterror in 85 countries<br \/>\n\u2022\tWars caused violations of human rights and civil liberties in U.S. and abroad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":144140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[2477,867,1817,2435,1105,2462,780,769,880,95,70,965,1594,492,481],"class_list":["post-194078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-militarism","tag-9-11","tag-anglo-america","tag-anti-militarism","tag-domestic-terrorism","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-military-intervention","tag-military-supremacy","tag-state-terrorism","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-war-economy","tag-war-on-terror","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}