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handle is hein.crs/crsahsi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS21013 Updated October 3, 2001 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Costs of Major U.S. Wars and Recent U.S. Overseas Military Operations Stephen Daggett and Nina M. Serafino Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division Summary The direct costs of U.S. military operations have varied greatly, with a high of some $4.7 trillion (in constant FY2002 dollars) for the incremental costs of World War II, to a few million per operation for U.S. peacekeeping efforts in Cambodia, Angola, and the Western Sahara. The incremental military costs of the war in Vietnam to the United States was $572 billion in FY2002 dollars, and the Persian Gulf War incremental costs totaled some $80 billion in FY2002 dollars, most of which was covered by allied contributions. For the decade after the war, from FY1991 through FY2000, the DOD has incurred some $9.2 billion in incremental costs (in FY2002 dollars) performing peacekeeping and related security missions in Southwest Asia, i.e., in and around fraq. For the same period, the incremental costs of DOD peacekeeping and related operations in the Balkans was $17 billion in constant FY2002 dollars. The total of U.S. military costs for peacekeeping and related security efforts over that decade was $29.6 billion in FY2002 dollars. Costs of U.S. overseas military operations, ranging from small humanitarian assistance exercises to global conflicts, are measured by determining the incremental costs of the actions to the Department of Defense, i.e., the expenses over and above the ongoing costs of normal military operational tempo, training, pay, investments, etc. Table 1 on the next page provides estimated costs of major U.S. conflicts in the 20th century. Table 2 shows the incremental costs to DOD of smaller operations within the past decade.' Tables 3 and 4 show an annual breakdown of the incremental costs of U.S. peace and security commitments from FY 1991 through FY2000, including ongoing and completed operations. Table 3 provides those figures in current year dollars; Table 4 shows them converted into FY2002 dollars. 1 For synopses of smaller operations, see CRS Report RL30184, Military Interventions by U.S. Forces from Vietnam to Bosnia: Background, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned for Kosovo, by Nina M. Serafino. This also provides cites to other CRS products on these operations. Congressional Research Service *** The Library of Congress

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