A week ago to day, the united states ended 20 years of war in afghanistan. The cost thof researches of brown university estimated would be over 300 million dollars a day for two decades. Stephanie savell is the co director of the costs of war project at brown university. I asked her how it felt to hear the president cite her work on how much this war cost over the estimates of his own government.
The Department of Defense tracks how much US wars cost, but last week President Biden cited instead accounting from the Costs of War Project at Brown University. Its co-director, Stephanie Savell, explains why.
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