Photo credit: Kali Rubaii, (2021), Fallujah, Iraq.

Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security concern. They project that the consequences of global warming – rising seas, ...

Data from War Spending and Lost Opportunities (2019) by Heidi Peltier. Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, ...

Military spending makes up a dominant share of discretionary spending in the United States; military personnel make up the majority of U.S. government manpower; and military industry is a leading ...

Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors. A large portion of these contracts -- ...

Some experts have argued that China’s military expenditures are far higher than official reporting would suggest, with one Senator claiming that China’s spending is roughly on par with U.S. spending.

More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country's leading civil ...

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University facilitates the study of this dynamic region from a multidisciplinary perspective. CLACS organizes academic conferences, ...

Source: The Long-Term Costs of U.S. Care for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, by Linda Bilmes (2021) The commitment to veterans continues long after wars ends. Those who have been deployed ...

Heidi Peltier has been a contributing author to the Costs of War project since its inception in 2010 and joined the staff in 2019. Peltier is an economist who has written on military-related topics ...

Professor of History and Politics at Ashoka University, India, Gopalkrishna Gandhi is, by training, an administrator. His working career has included public administration, diplomacy and the exercise ...