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The Black Hole of Afghanistan Infrastructure Projects
U.S. Navy sailors attached to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 move K-Span panels to an assembly area at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, on July 25, 2010. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5...
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Priorities and Perspective: Are we Reasonably Allocating our Resources in the...
Mary Kaszynski Afghanistan Study Group Blogger If you had to choose which country is the most strategically important – Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iran – you might have a hard time deciding. On the one...
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Withdraw Troops from Afghanistan but Stay Engaged
Mary Kaszynski Afghanistan Study Group Blogger The war in Afghanistan has cost a lot. In terms of dollars, it has cost $570 billion since 2001, including over $120 billion budgeted for 2012. Caring...
View Article$85 Billion of Aghan Aid Wasted
The president has requested close to $10 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction next year. If Congress approves the request, that will bring the total amount of U.S. reconstruction aid to Afghanistan...
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U.S. Commits to Billions in Afghanistan Aid
At the international aid conference in Tokyo there was another sign that the U.S. will continue to spend billions on aid to Afghanistan, despite serious questions about how aid dollars are spent. At...
View ArticleBillions of aid dollars, no solution to Afghanistan’s security problems
“Green on blue” attacks — attacks by Afghan police and military trainees against U.S. forces — are on the rise. In the past two weeks alone, ten U.S. troops have died at the hands of their Afghan...
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War Costs, Part 2: The War That Won’t End
Note: This is the second in a three-part series on the economic costs of the war in Afghanistan. Part one can be found here. Part three is forthcoming. The War That Won’t End After eleven years of war...
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Costs of Nation Building
The resignation of CIA Director General David Petraeus as head of the CIA last Friday led many to reflect on the legacy of the man who led U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011. Bing...
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U.S. Taxpayers Pay the Price for Wasteful War Strategy
The U.S. and Afghanistan began talks last week over the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014, news sources report. The talks, which will tackle thorny questions like immunity for U.S....
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Afghanistan War Takes a Toll on the U.S. Economy
“The true cost of the [Afghanistan] war is only just beginning,” Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes recently wrote in Financial Times. “Indeed, the costs after withdrawal may exceed those during the...
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