Cost of US Wars
Investment Management Division
1. Military Cost and Casualties of Recent US Conflicts
2. Gallup Poll: “Do you think the US is spending too little, about the right
amount or too much on national defense and military purposes?”
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= Total costs of the war on terror for the US (including wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria), are estimated to be $5.9 trillion.
= Over 40% of Americans think the US is spending the right amount on national defense, the highest level in 15 years, but would there be appetite for yet another costly military incursion into the Middle East?
*Costs of military operations only. Iraq & Afghanistan costs based on all overseas contingency operations as of 2018; all other estimates based on 2010 CRS report scaled by US CPI
through 2018. **Deaths: Battle and other in the theater.
Source: Investment Strategy Group, Congressional Research Service, "Costs of Major US Wars," June 29, 2010; Department of Defense Casualty Status; Department of Veterans Affairs; 12 Watson Institute at Brown University, Gallup, New York Times.
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