{"id":335025,"date":"2017-11-14T23:13:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/5-6-trillion-7000-deaths-52500-injuries-2\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T23:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T22:13:15","slug":"5-6-trillion-7000-deaths-52500-injuries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/5-6-trillion-7000-deaths-52500-injuries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"$5.6 Trillion, 7,000 Deaths, 52,500 Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>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\u2019s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Brown University\u2019s Cost of War project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/files\/cow\/imce\/papers\/2017\/Costs%20of%20U.S.%20Post-9_11%20NC%20Crawford%20FINAL%20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/media\/gbc\/docs\/pdfs_edit\/section_1090_fy17_ndaa_cost_of_wars_to_per_taxpayer-july_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, dubbed the \u201cEstimated Cost to Each Taxpayer for the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria,\u201d places the total authorized war spending on those conflicts between 2001 and 2018 at $1.5 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike assessments conducted by the Pentagon and other analysts, Crawford\u2019s estimate takes into account trillions in conflict-linked spending appropriated mainly through the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, and Veteran Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>On top of direct war spending through the Pentagon, the Brown University study includes $880 billion in new base defense costs linked to combat operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, in addition to nearly $780 billion in Department of Homeland Security costs.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the study notes that spending on veterans benefits has increased by nearly $300 billion since 2001 due to those wars.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the Brown study notes that its \u201cestimate is also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/cost-of-u-s-war-on-jihadists-5-6-trillion-7-000-deaths-52-500-injuries\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. According to Brown University\u2019s Cost of War project\u00a0analysis, authored by Neta Crawford, the total estimated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335025","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}