The Cost of War(costofwar.com)
costofwar.com
The Cost of War
http://costofwar.com/en/
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This is off by 5-10x if you count all the costs (equipment, increased domestic costs, ongoing security liabilities, ...)
It also completely discounts the human cost of warfare, if such a thing is even measurable.
Definitely. Even if you just focus on the economic cost of the human costs (lost income for anyone who dies in early 20s, disinvestment in Iraq/Afghanistan by local people due to fear they'll be robbed or killed, etc.), that's higher than the direct military cost.
Can we just start listing government costs debts, etc. on a per-capita basis? Aside from the fact that we can then compare differently sized governments, it just gives a better sense of scale. When you multiply by 300M just about all numbers are mindlessly big.
I'd like to see the war on drugs added.
Why is this on Hacker News?