Cost of Afghanistan war

Let's do a little Arithmetic

DatData We'll Need:

• fact remains, however, that if the CRS and OMB figures for FY2001-FY2013 that follow are totaled for all direct spending on the war, they reach $641.7 billion, of which $198.2 billion – or over 30% – will be spent in FY2012 and FY2013. This is an incredible amount of money to have spent with so few controls, so few plans, so little auditing, and almost no credible measures of effectiveness.
  
  
  2,326 U.S. military deaths in the War in Afghanistan
  
  
  20,083 American service members have also been wounded in action during the war.^[1] In addition, there were 1,173 U.S. civilian contractor fatalities
• $641.7 billion divided by 2,326 U.S. military deaths in the War in Afghanistan =275,580,395.529  Oh MY!
  
• Let's see if we can bring that # down a littlelet's include the wounded and "contractors", OK?
  2,326 Dead + 20,083 wounded + 1,173 fatalities = 23,582  OK, that oughta help a little.
  
  now divide 641 billion by 23,582 and lets see what we get = 27,181,748.79
  
• OK, now we're getting somewhere !!  Now that
  we've got some real data to work with the next
  time we go to war let's do a cost benefit analysis
  

  And we can compare that to the Defense Company

  profits and the profits of investors and see if it's a
  
• good deal or not.
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