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Re: Iran War Cost Tracker

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Post by bawolff »

blktiger wrote: post #15
bawolff wrote: post #4

Wouldn't some of these costs be present either way? Without a war US would still have aircraft carriers, they would just be floating somewhere else. On the other side, it seems like this is not tracking interceptor costs (presumably due to it being classified), which have certainly been used extensively and are extremely expensive. For that matter i doubt we have a very clear picture of how much ordinance has been us…

I think that's true, but I like that this site includes a "ESTIMATED MUNITIONS & EQUIPMENT COSTS" section that shows the value of actual, expended munitions which are all one-time costs directly resulting from the war.

Seems like a massive understatement given how much of this war has been shooting down iranian missiles. According to wikipedia, a single patriot missile cost 4 million, and you often have to use multiple to get a succesful shoot down.

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Post by JohnTHaller »

bawolff wrote: post #4

Wouldn't some of these costs be present either way? Without a war US would still have aircraft carriers, they would just be floating somewhere else. On the other side, it seems like this is not tracking interceptor costs (presumably due to it being classified), which have certainly been used extensively and are extremely expensive. For that matter i doubt we have a very clear picture of how much ordinance has been us…

Iran probably wouldn't have blown up the $300m radar installation if we hadn't randomly attacked them.

Re: Iran War Cost Tracker

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Post by csours »

martythemaniak wrote: post #3

Why is the US at war?

"Why?" is the hardest of the questions.

For any particular person, you can tell a story that satisfies "Why?". But for a large number of people, you have to answer "Why?" for one sub-group at a time.

In other words, there's not a single answer that will answer this in a satisfying way.

To answer a different question: It appears that the Israeli government and military wanted to bomb Iran again, and the United States executive branch and military decided to help out. This is an incomplete and unsatisfying answer. Sorry.

Re: Iran War Cost Tracker

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Post by bawolff »

kingkawn wrote: post #21
bawolff wrote: post #4

Wouldn't some of these costs be present either way? Without a war US would still have aircraft carriers, they would just be floating somewhere else. On the other side, it seems like this is not tracking interceptor costs (presumably due to it being classified), which have certainly been used extensively and are extremely expensive. For that matter i doubt we have a very clear picture of how much ordinance has been us…

Yes but right now it’s doing this war. It can’t be anywhere else, so the costs are for this deployment specifically.

I think when people are asking about the cost of a war, they are asking about excess costs. How much extra money would be saved if the war didn't happen.

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Post by sheikhnbake »

BJones12 wrote: post #22
roughly wrote: post #6

Next time someone asks how we're going to pay for, eg, free school lunches, keep this site in mind.

Given 50 million schoolkids in the US and a cost per meal per child of $4, the current number represents 10 meals. At 1 meal a day that would be 2 school weeks, at 2 meals a day that would be 1 school week.

2 school weeks of lunches for less than a week of war costs is a pretty good argument for school lunches. Especially as costs of this start to balloon the longer it goes on.

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

bawolff wrote: post #4

Wouldn't some of these costs be present either way? Without a war US would still have aircraft carriers, they would just be floating somewhere else. On the other side, it seems like this is not tracking interceptor costs (presumably due to it being classified), which have certainly been used extensively and are extremely expensive. For that matter i doubt we have a very clear picture of how much ordinance has been us…

Yes, the actual accounting is quite poor and makes bad assumptions. Don't use this info for anything important or serious.

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Post by idontwantthis »

lefstathiou wrote: post #19
bubblewand wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A carrier operating at sea on the other side of the world is a ton more expensive than a carrier in port at home. The Ford in particular would probably be in port now if not for these back-to-back expensive adventures, they’ve been deployed for a remarkably long time now. (As for whether this reflects only those added costs, I don’t know)

Carriers aren't meant to hang out at port at home. The US has protected global sea lanes for 80 years.

They aren't all deployed at all times and the Ford is more than overdue to be in Port. The sailors are notably suffering on this deployment and there is a ton of deferred maintenance.
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