This contribution assesses the legitimacy of the Second Gulf War under international law through the lens of its human …

This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … accounting/ budgetary frameworks. As of December 30, 2005, total spending for combat and support operations in Iraq is $251bn … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO …

As of this writing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in their eighth and tenth years, having accrued nearly a … the implications of the war costs themselves. Besides the unanticipated length and breadth of the military conflicts … motivations associated with war cost forecasts by comparing them with other types of aggregate forecasts, which are prone to …

This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … accounting/ budgetary frameworks. As of December 30, 2005, total spending for combat and support operations in Iraq is $251bn … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO …

expensive policies - the ongoing war in Iraq - has not been. The $212 billion allocated by the U.S. Treasury has been widely … war in Iraq, both todate and the total expected net present value of costs through 2015. Our estimates are imprecise. The … the benefits of a stable democratically elected government in Iraq, should one emerge. Nonetheless, our best estimates …

Three years ago, as America was preparing to go to war in Iraq, there were few discussions of the likely costs. When … aspects of the Iraq venture have turned out differently from what was purported before the war: there were no weapons of mass … destruction, no clear link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, no imminent danger that would warrant a pre-emptive war. Whether Americans …

As of this writing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in their eighth and tenth years, having accrued nearly a … the implications of the war costs themselves. Besides the unanticipated length and breadth of the military conflicts … motivations associated with war cost forecasts by comparing them with other types of aggregate forecasts, which are prone to …

powers, the government was able to fund the war by borrowing and levying taxes. In major wars, however, there came a point …