Wars’ Costs Pegged at $4 trillion; $20 billion a Year for Air Conditioning

Wars’ Costs Pegged at $4 trillion; $20 billion a Year for Air Conditioning

The cost to the United States of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan over the past 10 years has been somewhere between $3.2 and $4 trillion dollars, according to a study released this week by the Eisenhower Research Project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

“The human and economic costs of these wars will continue for decades, some costs not peaking until mid-century,” according to the “Cost of Wars” report, done by more than 20 economists, political scientists, and other specialists. It continues,…

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