{"id":158912,"date":"2015-06-12T12:52:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158912"},"modified":"2015-06-12T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:52:51","slug":"us-spends-9-million-day-isil-war-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-spends-9-million-day-isil-war-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"US spends $9 million a day on ISIL war: Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States has spent more than $2.7 billion on the military campaign against the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, averaging more than $9 million a day, the Pentagon says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Air Force has borne two-thirds of the total spending, or more than $1.8 billion, since President Barack Obama ordered airstrikes against ISIL last August, the Department of Defense said Thursday in its first breakdown of the operation&#8217;s costs.<\/p>\n<p>The daily combat, reconnaissance and other flights use up more than $5 million a day, the Associated Press (AP) reported.<\/p>\n<p>Operation costs rose from an average of $5.6 million a day to $9.7 million a day in mid-September, when US airstrikes expanded from Iraq into neighboring Syria.<\/p>\n<p>War spending continued to average around that figure through late May.<\/p>\n<p>Other costs include $438 million for the Navy, $274 million for the Army, $16 million for military pay, and $646 million was spent on munitions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/12\/415510\/US-war-spending-ISIL-27-billion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has spent more than $2.7 billion on the military campaign against the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, averaging more than $9 million a day, the Pentagon says. The US Air Force has borne two-thirds of the total spending, or more than $1.8 billion, since President Barack Obama ordered airstrikes against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}