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Includes the cost of paying and feeding troops. Presumably you have to pay and feed them if you aren't at war and they're playing cards and doing drills in esta
by harry8 9y ago
Includes the cost of paying and feeding troops. Presumably you have to pay and feed them if you aren't at war and they're playing cards and doing drills in established US bases and hopefully acting as a deterrent to war?
I'd like to see the actual marginal cost of the war on terror that excludes money that would have been spent on defence anyway (spent anyway rightly or wrongly, this isn't judgement about whether that spending should have gone up, down or flat).
BTW the war against Iraq absolutely was "War on Terror" It was sold as such with "Weapons of Mass Destruction" That justification being entirely false and knowingly to those who made it is beside the point, without the War on Terror existence and used as a justification it is reasonable to assume the Iraq invasion doesn't happen.
- h0l0cube 9y agoThe wiki page for the US Defence Budget has graphs[0]. One shows the per-capita expenditure appearing to trend downwards over the very long term[1] but still showing an obvious bump for the gulf war and the 'War on Terror', another highlighting a doubling of spending since the after the Gulf War in absolute terms[2] and a less pronounced jump when adjusted per capita[3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_... [1] https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1792_2017USp_18s2li011lcn_30f_Recent_Defense_Spending https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1792_201... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InflationAdjustedDefenseSpending.PNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InflationAdjustedDefenseS... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PerCapitaInflationAdjustedDefenseSpending.PNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PerCapitaInflationAdjuste...
- astura 9y agoYou pay them more if they are deployed (hazard pay, family separation allowance) plus you pay more in medical care when people are getting blown up with IEDs not to mention death benefits to families.