Exhibit 245

Estimated Cost to Each U.S. Taxpayer for the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and Ukraine (Section 1090 Report)

Exhibit 245 · Agency report to Congress

Estimated Cost to Each U.S. Taxpayer for the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and Ukraine (Section 1090 Report)

These amounts exclude non-Department of Defense classified programs.

Cumulative war-related costs FY2001 to FY2023: Afghanistan $881,941 million, Iraq and Syria $799,318 million, Ukraine $48,657 million, total $1,729,916 million ($8,702 per taxpayer).

Source: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Comptroller
Date: April 2024
Quoted from: Table footnote 1/
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/Section1090Reports/Estimated_Cost_to_Each_US_Taxpayer_of_Each_Wars_in_Afghanistan_Iraq_and_Syria_and_Ukraine_dated_June_2024.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding DEF-5.1: Primary record 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.
Finding DEF-5.2: Open question No single U.S. government estimate of the total cost of the post-9/11 wars exists.