What Does War Really Mean?

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Seven thousand 52 us. Service members have died in these post nine 11 wars, and that includes thethirteen who died in the blast at the cobble airport. In comparison, 387 thousand civilians have died inthese wars. Four times as many more have actually died by suicide than in combat. There are so many reasons why our veterans to day are having moref mental health problems than any previous generation of vets. That's what war is.

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.

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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