The Lacuna Project

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University

Costs of War Project, Watson School of International and Public Affairs, Brown University

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • DEF-1.3: The Congressional Research Service reported that five companies received 30 percent of Department of Defense contract obligations in fiscal year 2024, out of $445 billion: Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics.
  • DEF-1.10: The original Lobbying Disclosure Act quarterly reports for 2019 to 2025, summed, show Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman together reporting $519.7 million in lobbying, between $68.9 million and $81.2 million a year, in company-wide figures for all issues.
  • DEF-5.1: The Costs of War project estimated post-9/11 war spending through fiscal year 2022 at $8.043 trillion, including about $2.2 trillion in future veterans' care, while the Department of Defense's own report lists $1.73 trillion in war-related costs for fiscal years 2001 through 2023.
  • DEF-5.2: No single U.S. government estimate of the total cost of the post-9/11 wars exists.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 243 1 September 2021. Costs of War Project, Watson Institute, Brown University (Neta C. Crawford): The U.S. Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars
  • Exhibit 244 June 2025. Costs of War Project, Watson Institute, Brown University: U.S. Federal Budget (Costs of War research page, updated June 2025)
  • Exhibit 246 23 January 2019. Center for Strategic and International Studies (Anthony H. Cordesman): America's Military Spending and the Uncertain Costs of its Wars: The Need for Transparent Reporting
  • Exhibit 250 18 August 2021. Costs of War Project (Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School): The Long-Term Costs of United States Care for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
  • Exhibit 258 21 June 2021. Costs of War Project (Ben Suitt): High Suicide Rates among United States Service Members and Veterans of the Post-9/11 Wars
  • Exhibit 261 Page accessed 2026-11-09. Costs of War Project, Watson Institute, Brown University: Human (Costs of War research page)
  • Exhibit 262 1 September 2021. Costs of War Project (Neta C. Crawford and Catherine Lutz): Human Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones
  • Exhibit 263 15 May 2023. Costs of War Project (Stephanie Savell): How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health
  • Exhibit 264 21 September 2020. Costs of War Project (David Vine and others): Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States' Post-9/11 Wars
  • Exhibit 339 13 September 2021. William D. Hartung, Costs of War Project, Watson Institute, Brown University: Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge