This report illustrates that the manner in which the Israeli military uses small tactical drones in Gaza as instruments of “precision warfare” has not reduced civilian harm but has intensified it. Dr. Mimi Syed, (Emergency Medicine Physicia…
The costs of war with Iran extend well beyond the missiles, bombs, and deployment of personnel and munitions that have totaled upwards of the Pentagon’s estimates of $29 billion. As summer travel season arrives, this report, in collaboratio…
Elizabeth Beavers (Assistant Professor of Law, Delaware Law School at Widener University) argues that the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies are enabled by practices created, tested, and normalized by all three branches of gover…
According to Jennifer Kavanagh, Senior Fellow & Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities, the U.S. has spent at least $3.4 trillion countering China militarily since 2012. This figure, an average of $260 billion a year, is more t…
Suisheng Zhao (Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver) argues that anti-Asian and anti-Chinese American racism has intensified along with the mil…
Suisheng Zhao is a Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver. A Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, he is…
Promoting research and public awareness of the human, economic, social, and environmental costs of U.S. war Promoting research and public awareness of the human, economic, social, and environmental costs of U.S. war The Costs of War project…
When calculating the U.S. federal price tag for war, it is important to look beyond just direct congressional war appropriations, to spending on items like U.S. veterans’ health care and interest on war borrowing. Wars lead to increased bud…
In this issue brief, budget expert Julia Gledhill (Research Analyst, Stimson Center) examines the unprecedented military spending provisions in H.R. 1. It is unusual for reconciliation bills, such as H.R. 1, to include substantial funding f…
An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians. The number of people wounded or ill as a result of…
Mass population displacement has been a significant feature of the violence experienced in Gaza, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, and the West Bank since October 7, 2023. Anthropologist David Vine (Independent Scholar) calculates that at least 5.27 m…
In the two years since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, the U.S. government has spent $21.7 billion on military aid to Israel, according to policy analyst William D. Hartung (Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute). This figure…