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The Costs of War Project

@CostsOfWar
The human, budgetary, environmental, and social costs of US wars and military operations, at home and abroad. Housed @brownuniversity’s @Watson_School.
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    May 15, 2023
    BREAKING: Our latest estimates reveal that deaths in post-9/11 war zones top 4.5 million.  Read more by @MiriamABerger in the @washingtonpost: washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/…
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    Aug 28
    In the six months since the U.S. and Israel began strikes against Iran, American consumers have spent an additional $92.9 billion in extra fuel costs. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
    Screenshot of the Iran War Energy Cost Tracker, https://iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu.
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    Aug 28
    An “AI-first” fighting force will come with even higher greenhouse gas emissions, writes Costs of War co-founder Neta Crawford. thebulletin.org/2026/08/the-us…
    "More recently, military spending has boosted greenhouse gas emissions in the civilian sector by its demand for artificial intelligence and quantum computing, an energy hungry sector of the economy. Like the internet, AI has been both paid for and then used by the US military. The Defense Department announced in May 2026 that its AI use had increased 1,775 percent over the past calendar year. The Defense Department, which says that it will be an “AI-first” fighting force, has forged agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection to use their capabilities for warfighting and other applications. But this military funding for AI has also shaped the research and the demand for artificial intelligence in the larger economy, boosting AI energy use overall."
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    Aug 26
    The U.S. military has killed at least 223 people in 67 strikes in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific since last year, reports the New York Times, citing our research on the costs of these operations: $4.7 billion and counting.
    A screen grab from a video posted by U.S. Southern Command on Monday showed what it said was a vessel operating along a drug-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific.
    U.S. Military Kills 2 People in Attack on Boat in Pacific
    From nytimes.com
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    Aug 25
    How much does war contribute to the climate crisis? Nobody knows, because there is no comprehensive accounting, writes Costs of War co-founder Neta Crawford in @BulletinAtomic.
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    Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions
    From thebulletin.org
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