The Cost..

Costs of War is honored to receive the US Peace Memorial Foundation's 2022 US Peace Prize.

SUMMARY

• Over 940,000 people have died in the post-9/11 wars due to direct war violence, and several times as many due to the reverberating effects of war
  

• An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.

• Over 432,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting

• 38 million — the number of war refugees and displaced persons

• The U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8 trillion 

• The U.S. government is conducting counterterror activities in 85 countries

• The wars have been accompanied by violations of human rights and civil liberties, in the U.S. and abroad.         The Watson Ins.