Posted on Feb 11, 2020
US military budget request for Afghanistan lowest in a decade
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*Credit Card War*
Link/pdf excerpts:
“The wartime budgetary process for the post-9/11 wars... is the largest single deviation from standard budgetary practice in US history.”
“we have paid... by piling up debt on the national credit card. No previous US war was financed entirely through debt”
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2017/Linda%20J%20Bilmes%20_Credit%20Card%20Wars%20FINAL.pdf
Link/pdf excerpts:
“The wartime budgetary process for the post-9/11 wars... is the largest single deviation from standard budgetary practice in US history.”
“we have paid... by piling up debt on the national credit card. No previous US war was financed entirely through debt”
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2017/Linda%20J%20Bilmes%20_Credit%20Card%20Wars%20FINAL.pdf
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The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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