Boston Globe – by Alexa Gagosz
PROVIDENCE — In just 20 years, the total cost of the United States increasing homeland security and waging wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere since the Sept. 11 attacks has exceeded $8 trillion, according to new estimates by the Costs of War project at Brown University.
That figure includes the costs of veterans’ care through 2050, which is trillions higher than researchers previously estimated. Earlier estimates for the cost of all post-Sept. 11 wars had been about $6.4 trillion.
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