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Letter from Dan L. Crippen, Director Congressional Budget Office to Pete Domenici re: costs to the United States of current and potential participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's operations in Yugoslavia 1 (April 1999)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo9967 and id is 1 raw text is: April 15, 1999 Honorable Pete V. Domenici Chairman Committee on the Budget United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Mr. Chairman: In response to your letter of April 12, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has examined the costs to the United States of current and potential participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's operations in Yugoslavia. CBO does not have enough information to estimate the costs of those operations precisely, but assuming that the current air campaign continues into early May and is followed by a peacekeeping program, military and humanitarian costs for the first 12 months (through March 2000) could total about $3 billion. Costs for another six months would bring the total to roughly $4 billion through September 2000. If fighting escalated to include U.S. ground forces, costs would be about $300 million a month to deploy and sustain each increment of 27,000 troops and over $1 billion a month to sustain an air campaign. Limited Military Operations and Peacekeeping. The costs incurred to date are mainly for expended munitions, fuel, and maintenance of equipment necessitated by aircraft sorties and naval operations. During the first three weeks of air and missile assaults, CBO estimates that the Department of Defense incurred incremental operating costs of roughly $600 million. Continuing the air strikes for another month would add over $1 billion to the tab for munitions and operating costs. A negotiated settlement that led to deploying 4,000 U.S. peacekeeping troops, consistent with the Rambouillet agreement, would cost about $50 million a month, or about $600 million annually. Continued air and naval support to the region along with ancillary ground-based support in neighboring countries would also add about $50 million a month, or another $600 million a year.

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