[Excerpted] The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq will cost taxpayers $4 trillion to $6 trillion, taking into account
the medical care of wounded veterans and expensive repairs to a force
depleted by more than a decade of fighting, according to a new study by a
Harvard researcher....
Bilmes said the United States has spent almost $2 trillion already for the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those costs, she said, are only a fraction of the ultimate price tag. The biggest ongoing expense will be providing medical care and disability benefits to veterans of the two conflicts. [end]
Majia here: See the report https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/workingpapers/citation.aspx?PubId=8956&type=WPN
Bilmes said the United States has spent almost $2 trillion already for the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those costs, she said, are only a fraction of the ultimate price tag. The biggest ongoing expense will be providing medical care and disability benefits to veterans of the two conflicts. [end]
Majia here: See the report https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/workingpapers/citation.aspx?PubId=8956&type=WPN
Linda J. Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets
Bilmes, Linda J. "The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How
Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security
Budgets." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-006, March
2013.
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