Funding Extended Conflicts

the long version

"One aspect of war is often overlooked : how much do they cost and how are they funded. Funding Extended Conflicts develops a baseline on Federal spending for the two extended conflicts of the Cold War era, Korea and Vietnam, and compares them with the global war on terror, including current outlays for Iraq and Afghanistan. It also provides wartime cases that offer recommendations on how to pay for future wars and focuses on the length of the "tails" of such spending which are often omitted in the final analyses and distort funding estimates."--book jacket.