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In a Narrow Shale Crevice
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Actually, Yes, It Was the Jews: Hitler Invades Poland
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The Inexorable Menace
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The End of China
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The Myth of the Gay Penguins
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Conclusive Proof for Laboratory Origin of SARS-CoV-2
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The Curious Case of Professor Avi Loeb and the Comet That Refused to Be a Spaceship
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Clarifying Crime in Major American Cities
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Reorienting Earth’s Energy Imbalance
Zooms and Booms Science - Scholar Series
American Supremacy and The End of Apology
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To the Maker of Worlds and the Keepers of the Ledger
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The End of Palestine: A Requiem for a Failed Idea
A critical look at the geopolitical realities of 2025 and the collapse of a long-held aspiration.
Blood on the Palimpsest: The Untold Prologue of Ukraine's War
Yes, the groan is almost audible now, a low, collective exhalation from a continent that once believed history…
Hamas and NGOs: A Humanitarian Dinner Theatre
A structural autopsy of a failed developmental model in Gaza.
The Cynical Seed and the Secular Harvest
Rabbinic Supersessionism, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Genesis of Modern Jewish Unbelief
| Conflict | Cost | Dead | Wounded | Status | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World War II1941–1945 | $6.15T | 405,399 | 670,846 | official adjusted | The largest cost row here, with a human toll that still resists comprehension. |
| Iraq2003–2011 / FY2014 | $1.11T | 4,507 | 32,242 | official adjusted | Uses cumulative enacted funding through FY2014, not a single narrow operation window. |
| Vietnam1955–1973 | $1.03T | 90,220 | 303,644 | official adjusted | Dead here reflects the source frame, which can combine battle and other deaths. |
| Korea1950–1953 | $478.5B | 44,246 | 103,284 | official adjusted | Smaller than World War II and Vietnam in money, still brutal in dead and wounded. |
| World War I1917–1918 | $378.3B | 116,516 | 204,002 | official adjusted | Lower than later wars in dollars, not in consequence. |
| Desert Storm1990–1991 | $143.5B | 1,948 | 467 | official adjusted | Far lower than the giant wars above it, but not a bloodless line item. |
| Operation Epic Fury2026–present | $10.9B | 13 | 365 | estimated / moving ⚠ Epic Fury is a live moving row. Early estimate, not a final audited total. | Live row. Early cost and casualty reporting can move materially as reporting firms up. |
| Afghanistan pullout2021–2022 | $3.3B | 13 | 45 | official adjusted | Intentionally narrow: withdrawal and evacuation frame, not the full Afghanistan war. |
| Libya2011 | $1.6B | 0 | 0 | best available estimate ⚠ Libya uses best-available public reporting, not a clean unified official consolidated row. | Included because omission hides reality, but this row is weaker and less consolidated than the others. |
- Legacy wars use CRS cost figures expressed in constant FY2008 dollars, translated into 2025 dollars.
- Casualty counts show U.S. military dead and wounded in the source frame used for each conflict.
- For early wars, dead can include battle and other deaths where the source breaks them out that way.
- Iraq, Afghanistan pullout, Libya, and Epic Fury are not perfectly comparable to the older CRS series.
- CRS cost series: World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War.
- CRS cumulative Iraq funding through FY2014.
- DoD / public reporting for the Afghanistan evacuation cost frame.
- Best-available public reporting for Libya and Operation Epic Fury, both flagged.
- VA / DoD casualty tables for dead and wounded counts.