Exhibit 246 ยท Think-tank report
America's Military Spending and the Uncertain Costs of its Wars: The Need for Transparent Reporting
some outside efforts to estimate the total cost of U.S. conflicts may sharply overestimate total costs
Reviews OCO and DoD cost-of-war reporting and analyzes an earlier Crawford estimate. Says some outside estimates may overestimate costs, that the OCO line is partly inflated by low-level operations and by non-war items Congress allowed to avoid Budget Control Act limits, and that government reporting on war costs is inadequate.
- Source
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (Anthony H. Cordesman)
- Date
- 23 January 2019
- Quoted from
- Summary
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.csis.org/analysis/americas-military-spending-and-uncertain-costs-its-wars-need-transparent-reporting
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
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