The Cost of War

Jibey Asthappan

SAGE Open, 2016, vol. 6, issue 1, 2158244016640590

Abstract: Spending almost US$700 billion to combat insurgents in Afghanistan, the U.S. population should be hopeful that they “bought†something of value as the Afghan War concludes. This exploratory study focuses on evaluating operations within Afghanistan by accounting for enemy and civilian losses. Integration of civilian losses offers an opportunity to evaluate operations that represent societal losses to the Afghan people. Regression estimates using zero-inflated negative-binomial models indicate that military operations resulted in more civilian casualties than enemy losses.

Keywords: War on Terror; Afghan War; civilian losses; effectiveness of war; counter-terrorism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/2158244016640590

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