The three trillion dollar war : the true cost of the Iraq conflict
Material type: TextPublication details: UK Allen Lane 2008Description: 311 pISBN: 9781846141287Subject(s): War--Economic aspects | United states | IraqDDC classification: 956.704431 Summary: THE THREE TRILLION DOLLAR WAR will be a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war - quite apart from its tragic human toll - which the Bush administration has estimated at $50 billion, but which Stiglitz and Bilmes will show underestimates the real figure by approximately six times. The authors expose the gigantic expenses which have so far not been officially accounted for, including not only big ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans - for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global perspective, the authors investigate the cost in lives and damage within Iraq and the Middle East generally. With chilling precision, they calculate what the money spent on the war would have produced had it been further invested in the growth of the economy, in the US and around the world, and in infrastructure building. Stiglitz and Bilmes write in simple language, which makes the details they present, and the sums they add up, all the more disturbing. This book will change forever the way we think about the Iraq war - and about the cost of war generally.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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956.70443 FIL/F The forever war | 956.70443 PAC/A The assassins' gate : America in Iraq | 956.70443092 BAR/P The prisoner in his palace : Saddam Hussein, his American guards, and what history leaves unsaid | 956.704431 STI/T The three trillion dollar war : the true cost of the Iraq conflict | 956.704431 TWI Twilight of empire : responses to occupation | 956.910 423 RAQ Raqqa diaries: escape from islamic state | 956.910423 DIG/M The morning they came for us: dispatches from Syria |
THE THREE TRILLION DOLLAR WAR will be a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war - quite apart from its tragic human toll - which the Bush administration has estimated at $50 billion, but which Stiglitz and Bilmes will show underestimates the real figure by approximately six times. The authors expose the gigantic expenses which have so far not been officially accounted for, including not only big ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans - for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global perspective, the authors investigate the cost in lives and damage within Iraq and the Middle East generally. With chilling precision, they calculate what the money spent on the war would have produced had it been further invested in the growth of the economy, in the US and around the world, and in infrastructure building. Stiglitz and Bilmes write in simple language, which makes the details they present, and the sums they add up, all the more disturbing. This book will change forever the way we think about the Iraq war - and about the cost of war generally.
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