Next Big Future: Cost of US wars from 2001 to 2016 is about $4.79 trillion
As of August 2016, the US has already appropriated, spent, or taken on obligations to spend more than $3.6 trillion in current dollars on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria and on Homeland Security (2001 through fiscal year 2016). To this total should be added the approximately $65 billion in dedicated war spending the Department of Defense and State Department have requested for the next fiscal year, 2017, along with an additional nearly $32 billion requested for the Department of Homeland Security in 2017, and estimated spending on veterans in future years. When those are included, the total US budgetary cost of the wars reaches $4.79 trillion.
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Update: The Pentagon Must Now Reveal the True Cost of War to All Americans (Eric Pianin, Fiscal Times)
WNU Editor: The report on how much the wars have cost the U.S. since 2001 is here.
3 comments:
thats alot of surfboards right there.
453 billions on interest.. wow
$15,020.38 each man woman and child and the costs are continuing.
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