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[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Where are you getting your numbers from?

$120 million = 1.45% of the military budget for Iraq and Syria 2018

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I said 120 soldiers for 1 year.

It costs 1 million a piece per soldier per year, thus 120 million.

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It costs 1 million a piece per soldier per year, thus 120 million.

No its more like $2 million a piece (2013, Afghanistan) when you include injuries.

So its like 60 soldiers in Iraq for 1 year, assuming injuries.

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This one says 850,000 - the point this is: even adjusting for inflation and wasteful spending (as per the recently released pentagon papers, which is what I'm basing this off) - the cost of war simply keeps increasing, despite any logical "predictions".

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I had no idea at how much the wars cost per soldier.

I agree with you. Whatever it costs, its too damn high!