Cost of Post-9/11 Wars Expected to Top $6 Trillion

摘要

The U.S. government has already appropriated trillions of dollars for post-9/11 counterterrorism efforts, and the price tag is expected to increase by an additional $ 1 trillion or more in the coming decades, according to a recent study. Neta Crawford, co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, tallied up counterterrorism-related spending in a report titled, "United States Budgetary Costs and Obligations of Post-9/11 Wars through FY 2020: $6.4 Trillion."