AJ Vicens and Dave Gilson, “US Spent Billions on Afghan Projects That Will Fall Apart When We Leave,” Mother Jones, 20 November 2013

All in all, military operations in Afghanistan have cost nearly $700 billion. That’s still less than the United States spent fighting in Vietnam, but it’s still a major chunk of the more than $1.6 trillion spent on the Afghan and Iraq conflicts since September 11.

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