Director, Costs of War project at Brown University; anthropologist; research on U.S. post-9/11 wars. Also tweets for @CostsOfWar
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Joined April 2014
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My latest @CostsOfWar research, out today, shows that the widespread myth in the US that the so-called "war on terror" is over could not be further from the truth.
BREAKING: Our updated counterterrorism map reveals that the post-9/11 wars are far from over.
We’ve tracked operations in 78 countries under the Biden administration between 2021-2023. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/… [THREAD]
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Heidi took this photo, which we've used in our research, during a flyover in Gaza. Journalists should never be targets. Solidarity with Heidi and other reporters facing violence while covering conflict and war.
ALT Photo by Heidi Levine (July 30, 2025) showing an aerial view of Gaza destruction, taken during a Royal Jordanian military flight for a humanitarian aid mission.
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.
Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
This news shows the impact of @costsofwar and our contributors. We'll see if it amounts to true change. Meanwhile, we'll keep examining the U.S. policies and actions that result in deaths. xitter.cf/CostsOfWar/status/2106…
A month after we released new figures on extensive civilian deaths in Yemen due to U.S. strikes, and amid reports of over 1,700 civilians killed in war with Iran, officials told the New York Times that the Pentagon will hold a conference to discuss ways to limit civilian casualties in combat operations. nytimes.com/2026/10/01/us/po…
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BREAKING: Extra fuel costs due to Iran War top $40 billion, an “unacknowledged tax” on U.S. households, according to new joint research with the Climate Solutions Lab at @Watson_School. [THREAD] costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/…
ALT Image: As of May 18, 2026, our calculations show that Americans have spent over $40 billion on extra gasoline and diesel costs, above what they paid in February. Our latest brief asks: What as a country, could we have spent that money on instead?
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The United States government’s current legal structure around immigration enforcement is yet another cost of the post-9/11 wars, notes @StephSavell. [6/7]
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What $25 Billion Spent on the War in Iran Really Means — @CostsOfWar's @stephsavell tells @nytimes that the true costs of the war in Iran extend far beyond the Pentagon's $25 billion estimate.
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Radio excerpt from One on One: @stephsavell of @CostsOfWar Project at @BrownUniversity says the Iran war is much more costly than the $25 billion estimated by the Pentagon oceanstatemedia.org/one-on-o…
Four major new @CostsOfWar research reports out today on the human and budgetary costs of the post-10/7 wars, two years in.
BREAKING: The post-10/7 wars have killed or injured at least 236,505 people in Gaza alone.
The U.S. has spent over $31 billion and counting in the wider region since Oct. 7, 2023, where millions have been displaced, according to new Costs of War research. [THREAD]
Photo Credit: Heidi Levine, July 30, 2025
ALT Photo by Heidi Levine (July 30, 2025) showing an aerial view of Gaza destruction, taken during a Royal Jordanian military flight for a humanitarian aid mission.
I wrote a study on “indirect deaths” in the post-9/11 wars—those deaths that continue long after bombs are dropped. Here’s what my analysis brings to bear on analyzing the death toll in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. [THREAD]
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One year into the violence, @CostsOfWar research highlighted an October 2, 2024 letter to President Biden from a group of U.S. physicians estimating that 62,413 people in Gaza had already died of starvation. [8/9] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/…
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"This is not an arsenal of democracy—it's an arsenal of profiteering." @stephsavell on our latest research showing that more than half of Trump's military budget will likely go to military contractors. commondreams.org/news/pentag…
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Costs of War’s @StephSavell on the new report: “This is not an arsenal of democracy — it’s an arsenal of profiteering. We should keep the enormous and growing power of the arms industry in mind as we assess the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. and globally.” [10/12]
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Unmasking American myths about war and the military — In an interview on the @makingpeaceviz #podcast, @stephsavell discussed whether massive U.S. defense spending is actually making the country safer.
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BREAKING: The reconciliation bill enacted recently pushes annual U.S. military spending beyond the $1 trillion mark—likely triggering a more than half-trillion-dollar transfer of wealth from taxpayers to military contractors. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/…
