The cost to American taxpayers of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has surpassed $1 trillion, but after adjusting for inflation, World War II continues to reach a far higher price at more than $4 trillion. A new report from the Congressional Research Service warns against too closely comparing armed conflicts the United States has engaged in, but it’s nonetheless a useful exercise to consider how the global war on terror figures into the nation’s history.
Afghanistan
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The Investigative Report | April 21, 2010
CIR co-presents Restrepo doc at SFIFF53
The Center for Investigative Reporting is proud to co-present Restrepo, directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22-May 6):
Restrepo
As unnerving as it is illuminating of the dangers, toils and absurdities of war, Restrepo is an intimate portrait of a platoon posted to Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, one of the U.S. Army’s most dangerous assignments.
Anna Badkhen reports from northern Afghanistan
CIR correspondent Anna Badkhen documents her month-long trek across northern Afghanistan in a series of journals for Foreign Policy magazine.
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The Investigative Report | January 29, 2010
Journalist Craig Pyes to speak about prisoner abuse by U.S. military
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Craig Pyes will speak about prisoner abuse by the U.S. military at Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy on Tuesday, February 2, from 4-6 p.m. More info here:
On the ground in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley
Today, President Obama addresses the nation to reveal a new plan for winning, and ending, the war in Afghanistan—many expect a substantial increase in U.S. troops deployed to the area.
A Digital Generation at War
Correspondent Elizabeth Rubin spent the fall of 2007 with Battle Company of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade in northeastern Afghanistan. The Americans and the Taliban have been locked in a dead heat in the Korengal Valley for more than three years. In 2007, Rubin went on a six-day mission with a platoon into the insurgents' mountain hideouts that resulted in the death of three soldiers. Rubin returned to Battle Company and the Korengal in the summer of 2008. Both times, she took a video camera.
+ Watch the videos on FRONTLINE's website.
Elizabeth Rubin's reporting was supported in part by CIR's Dick Goldensohn Fund for International Investigative Reporting.
