The Costs of War Project is pretty much what the name says. War is about death and destruction, a fight for survival in an unforgiving world. There are people who think it is a bad idea. Their thinking is right as far as it goes. The ugly reality is summed by the Latin phrase: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum. It means If you want peace, prepare for war. Weakness can be disastrous or fatal.
#Stephanie Savell, who helps run the project has taken the point that War is Hell. Has she got an answer to preventing it? No, not really but she means well. So it is that she wrote #The Wars No One Notices. It was published by Ron Unz in his worthy site, The Unz Review • An Alternative Media Selection.
Her subtitle is: Talking to a Demobilized Country. It makes sense. War had become somewhat private. The general public at large did not know what was being done in their name, at their very considerable expense. After the catastrophe that was Viet Nam, the generals realised that the real enemy was knowledge. Conscripts went back home complaining loudly. Cameras were there. Pictures of injured men were decidedly unhelpful. Having the Mainstream Media on side became a major issue. That war finished in 1975. Then Americans and Brits found themselves in Afghanistan fighting against another enemy. Who were they? What was the point? Pass but that one lasted 20 years, ended with an ignominious defeat at cost of trillions. The death toll was high too. The Merchants of Death were quietly happy.
Now, in December 2021 Zionist crazies are leveraging the Biden administration to invade Iran for them. They are producing stories about Weapons of Mass Destruction, the same lies they used about Iraq. That time Bush & Co. seem to have believed them.
Ron's commentators have taken a point about Mrs Savell; she said nothing about the real cause of this one, the Jews. The comment from #Wally goes right to the point. He also links to sources of evidence. That's as good as it gets in this wicked world & something the Mainstream Media avoid. As to the costs, read what Fred has to say. He was in Viet Nam for real. After getting hit by a Chinese 12.7 round he got a year in hospital, which where he saw all too many other victims. Patriots? Yes. Losers? Yes. Expendable? Yes. They are prone to have sour views about the people that sent them somewhere they had never heard of to fight an enemy they never saw. Why? Fred Explains About War. Fred Was There For Real. Fred Made It Back On A Stretcher
The Wars No One Notices
I’m in my mid-thirties, which means that, after the 9/11 attacks, when this country went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq in what President George W. Bush called the “Global War on Terror,” I was still in college. I remember taking part in a couple of campus antiwar demonstrations and, while working as a waitress in 2003, being upset by customers who ordered “freedom fries,” not “French fries,” to protest France’s opposition to our war in Iraq. (As it happens, my mother is French, so it felt like a double insult.) For years, like many Americans, that was about all the thought I put into the war on terror. But one career choice led to another and today I’m co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
The Wars No One Notices
Talking to a Demobilized Country by Stephanie Savell [ 15 February 2018 ]
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A comment, one of 76 comes from Wally. It is:-
Wally says:
February 16, 2018 at 6:03 am GMT • 3.9 years ago • 200 Words
Did I miss it, or did the author curiously fail to directly mention Israel / Jews responsibility in all of this madness.
The True Cost of Parasite Israel
Forced US taxpayers money to Israel goes far beyond the official numbers.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-true-cost-of-israel/
Fighting Israel’s Wars
How the United States military has become Zionized
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/fighting-israels-wars/
Pandering to Israel Has Got to Stop
Pledges of loyalty to Israel are un-American
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/pandering-to-israel-has-got-to-stop/#comments
America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/americas-jews-are-driving-americas-wars/#comment-2012898
Israel’s Money Machine
Zionist Billionaires & US taxpayers keep on paying for parasite Israel
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-money-machine/
Israel’s Dirty Little Secret
How it drives US policies exploiting a spineless Congress and White House
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-dirty-little-secret/
How to Bring Down the Elephant in the Room
https://www.unz.com/tsaker/how-to-bring-down-the-elephant-in-the-room/
http://www.codoh.com
Agree: Z-man
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Is Wally right? Believe him or check his sources.
Costs of War Project ex Wiki
The Costs of War Project is a nonpartisan research project based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University that seeks to document the direct and indirect human and financial costs of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and related counterterrorism efforts. The project is the most extensive and comprehensive public accounting of the cost of post-September 11th U.S. military operations compiled to date.[1][2]
The project involves economists, anthropologists, lawyers, humanitarians, and political scientists.[3] It is directed by Catherine Lutz and Stephanie Savell of Brown and Neta Crawford of Boston University.[4][5]
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs ex Wiki
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Its mission is to promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching, and public engagement.[1] The Institute's research focuses on three main areas: development, security, and governance. Its faculty include anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians, as well as journalists and other practitioners. The Institute is directed by Edward Steinfeld, professor in the Department of Political Science, and director of the China Initiative at Brown University.
Brown University ex Wiki
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.[7]
At its foundation, Brown was the first college in North America to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation.[8] The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England.[a][9][10][11] The university was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887.[8] In 1969, Brown adopted its Open Curriculum after a period of student lobbying. The new curriculum eliminated mandatory "general education" distribution requirements, made students "the architects of their own syllabus" and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory (Pass) or no-credit (Fail) which is unrecorded on external transcripts.[12][13] In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university.
Admission is among the most selective in the United States; in 2021, the university reported an acceptance rate of 5.4%.[14]
The university comprises the College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health and the School of Professional Studies. Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the university is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. In conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown offers undergraduate and graduate dual degree programs.
Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The university is surrounded by a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of Colonial-era buildings. Benefit Street, which runs along the western edge of the campus, contains one of the richest concentrations of 17th and 18th century architecture in the United States.[15][16]
As of November 2019, nine Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown as alumni, faculty, or researchers, as well as seven National Humanities Medalists[b] and ten National Medal of Science laureates. Other notable alumni include 26 Pulitzer Prize winners,[c] 18 billionaires,[d] one U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, four U.S. Secretaries of State, 99 members of the United States Congress,[22] 57 Rhodes Scholars,[23] 20 MacArthur Genius Fellows,[e] and 37 Olympic medalists.[24]
Stephanie Savell ex Wiki
The Wiki hasn't done a bio for her yet, in late 2021 but you can see some her writing at https://www.unz.com/author/stephanie-savell/
Catherine Lutz ex Wiki
Catherine A. Lutz (/lʌts/; born 1952) is an American anthropologist and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University.[1] She is also a Research Professor at the Watson Institute where she serves as a director of the Costs of War Project, which attempts to calculate the financial costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.[2]
Education
Lutz received a B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Swarthmore College in 1974. She then received a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1980.[3]
Career
Early in her career, Lutz served as assistant professor at Harvard University and associate professor at Binghamton University. Between 1992 and 2003, she worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined Brown University in 2003, serving as chair of the department of anthropology between 2009 and 2012.[4]
Lutz served as president of the American Ethnological Society from 2001 to 2005. She is a founder of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists.
In April 2013, Lutz was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to “write a book on the contemporary moralities of American war" that will include a nationwide sample of interviews in order to “understand what popular histories and evaluations of the post-9/11 wars are emerging in a diverse range of communities.”[5]