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• The New Yorker cites Bilmes research on war costs
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• Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan estimated $4 to $6 trillion
• Bilmes updates war costs in speech to Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Cost of War project estimates Iraq war cost at $4-$6 trillion
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• US program to supply Afghan military with fuel is in shambles — $475 million in fuel records shredded, according to SIGAR
• Replacement Cost of Marine Harrier Jets Destroyed in Afghanistan will top $1 billion
• Afghanistan is missing from the campaign – Linda Bilmes op-ed in Boston Globe
• Nearly half of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans claim disability benefits
• Veterans Disability Costs exceed Stiglitz-Bilmes estimates
• New CBO study confirms high cost of treating new veterans with PTSD and TBI
• What have we learned from Iraq?
• Five Painful Lessons from the Iraq War
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/the-number-446-billion.html

Linda Bilmes new paper revises war costs upwards based on increased utilization of medical care by active duty troops, families and veterans,  as well as increasing volume and complexity of disability claims by veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read the paper:

https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/workingpapers/citation.aspx?PubId=8956&type=WPN

 

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311648-2

The Brown University/Eisenhower Institute study group, which includes 30 academics studying war costs, has issued an updated series of reports for the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War.  Links to the study and to Linda Bilmes latest paper on veterans are attached here.

http://costsofwar.org/

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