Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of War • Henry A. Wallace National Security Forum • BRAVE NEW FILMS

War is expensive, both in human and financial costs, but how much money are we actually spending? The pentagon budget, not counting wars has increased by about a trillion dollars over the last...

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>> Sonali Kolhatkar: War is expensive both in humanand financial costs, but how much money are weactually spending.Welcome to the Henry A. Wallace National Security Forum.I'm Sonali Kolhatkar.The financial costs of the US's wars are discussed in numbersso big, it's hard to wrap your head around themand it's not just the cost of deployments and weapons,but the long-lasting costs of veterans' carethat many policymakers don't take into account.Linda Bilmes is the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturerin Public Policy at Harvard University and co-authorof "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costof the Iraq Conflict."She now joins me to dive into these numbers.Welcome to the program, Lin...