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United States Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars Through FY2019

其他書名	$5.9 Trillion Spent and Obligated
出版	Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Brown University, 2018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qlf0vgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion (in current dollars) on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans. This number differs substantially from the Pentagon's estimates of the costs of the post-9/11 wars because it includes not only war appropriations made to the Department of Defense - spending in the war zones of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and in other places the government designates as sites of "overseas contingency operations, "--But also includes spending across the federal government that is a consequence of these wars. Specifically, this is war-related spending by the Department of State, past and obligated spending for war veterans' care, interest on the debt incurred to pay for the wars, and the prevention of and response to terrorism by the Department of Homeland Security. If the US continues on its current path, war spending will continue to grow