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Neta Crawford

Montague Burton Professor, University of Oxford , Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, Costs of War
netaccrawford@gmail.com
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Neta C. Crawford is the author of "The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions" (MIT Press, 2022). Crawford is also the author of three other books, "Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars" (2013), "Soviet Military Aircraft" (1987) and "Argument and Change in World Politics" (2002), named Best Book in International History and Politics by the American Political Science Association. She has written more than two dozen peer reviewed articles on issues of war and peace. Dr. Crawford has served on the governing Board of the Academic Council of the United Nations System and on the Governing Council of the American Political Science Association. Dr. Crawford was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2023.

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The Guardian

How the US became the biggest military emitter and stopped everyone finding out

May 30, 2025
Costs of War co-founder Neta Crawford was interviewed in The Guardian on greenhouse gas emissions and war.
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Published March 15, 2023

Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023

Published September 1, 2021

Human Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones

Published September 1, 2021

The U.S. Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars

Published December 7, 2020

Afghanistan’s Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020

Published November 19, 2019

Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War

Published November 13, 2019

Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones, Afghanistan and Pakistan (October 2001 – October 2019)

Published November 13, 2019

United States Budgetary Costs and Obligations of Post-9/11 Wars through FY2020: $6.4 Trillion

Published November 14, 2018

United States Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars Through FY2019: $5.9 Trillion Spent and Obligated

Published November 8, 2018

Human Cost of the Post-9/11 Wars: Lethality and the Need for Transparency

Published September 12, 2016

US Budgetary Costs of Wars through 2016: $4.79 Trillion and Counting

Published August 1, 2016

Update on the Human Costs of War for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001 to mid‐2016

Published May 22, 2015

War-related Death, Injury, and Displacement in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2001-2014

Published June 25, 2014

U.S. Costs of Wars Through 2014: $4.4 Trillion and Counting: Summary of Costs for the U.S. Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan

Published March 1, 2013

Civilian Death and Injury in the Iraq War, 2003-2013

Published November 1, 2012

Civilians Killed in US Operations in Yemen

Published September 9, 2011

War Related Death and Injury in Pakistan, 2004-2011

Published September 1, 2011

Civilian Death and Injury in Afghanistan, 2001-2011

Published September 1, 2011

Civilian Death and Injury in Iraq, 2003-2011

Published June 13, 2011

Assessing the Human Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars: The Dead and Wounded in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, 2001-2011

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