Recent Posts
- What have we learned from Iraq?
- Five Painful Lessons from the Iraq War
- Defense Dept is now the ONLY federal government agency to flunk its audit
- Ten Years in Afghanistan
- New Op-ed in Los Angeles Times by Bilmes and Stiglitz
- Recent commentary by the authors on the costs of 9/11
- Rising US death toll in Afghanistan: lessons from history
- Gloomy reports detail huge fraud, waste and corruption in contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan
- NY Times looks at rising cost of veterans care
- Brown University study estimates cost of wars at $3.7 Trillion since 2001
- Congress considers legislation that would require estimates of the true cost of war
- Stiglitz Bilmes new book chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict
- Wars are one of the main reasons why the US debt is so high
- Reprint: Washington Post article on the true cost of war
- British withdraw from Iraq
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Oct
3
Recruitment costs rise 25% for Army, Marines in 2008
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One of the “hidden costs” of the war discussed in the book is the increased cost of recruiting troops. Despite the lower levels of fatalities for US troops in Iraq during the past year, the Army and Marine corps increased the cost of recruiting new soldiers and Marines by 25% this year. This includes $640 million in additional recruitment bonuses.
Oct
3
New outbreak of Cholera in Iraq
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The Ministry of Health in Iraq has confirmed 327 new cases of cholera since August 20th, 2008. The outbreak has reached nine provinces, including Baghdad, Basra, Karbala, Najaf, Diyala, Anbar, Babil, Diwaniya and Maysan. Dozens of new suspected cases are being investigated throughout the country.
