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The post-9/11 wars

The U.S. wars and counterterror operations that followed the attacks of 11 September 2001, in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places.

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How much these wars cost depends on what is counted. See The U.S. Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars.

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U.S. Department of Defense its own count of war spending through fiscal year 2020 was $1.596 trillion Scholarship & press 1

Boeing According to William D. Hartung Scholarship & press 2
Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
General Dynamics According to William D. Hartung Scholarship & press 2
Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
Kellogg Brown & Root According to William D. Hartung Scholarship & press 2
Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
Lockheed Martin According to William D. Hartung Scholarship & press 2
Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
Northrop Grumman According to William D. Hartung Scholarship & press 2
Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.
RTX According to William D. Hartung Scholarship & press 2
Hartung writes of the whole surge in Pentagon spending after 9/11, not only contracts in the war zones. He is an advocate for a less militarized foreign policy.

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The U.S. Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars, Costs of War Project, Brown University, 1 Sep 2021. Scholarship & press
the Department of Defense concluded in their most recent public estimate that emergency/overseas contingency operations (OCO) spending for the wars in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan cost a total of $1.596 Trillion, or $8,094 per taxpayer through FY 2020.
The U.S. wars in Iraq and Syria cost $2.058 trillion through FY2022.
the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is part of the same theater of operations, cost $2.313 trillion through FY2022.
The United States, over the last two decades, has already spent and the Biden administration has requested about $5.8 trillion in reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge, Costs of War Project, Brown University, 13 Sep 2021. Scholarship & press
The benefits of the post-9/11 surge in Pentagon spending have been highly concentrated. One-quarter to one-third of all Pentagon contracts in recent years have gone to just five major weapons contractors: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
Companies benefiting from the buildup of the past 20 years range from weapons manufacturers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, to logistics and reconstruction firms like Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) and Bechtel, to armed private security contractors like Blackwater and Dyncorp.

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