In the chaos of war, keeping track of personnel losses is a huge challenge. To find the numbers we present in The Costs of War, we collected data from over a dozen published sources. We looked at ...

However, the costs involve more than the skill with which public officials perform their jobs. Rejection of the concept of an apolitical civil service is a rejection of the principle that ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

Defending Ukraine in its war with Russia has cost $280 billion so far – and the US has contributed more than any other country. President Donald Trump has raised concerns about the cost of the ...

The previous government froze civil service pay to try and control costs as headcount ballooned. Result? According to new analysis from the Institute for Government, over the past decade the ...

But like so many others in Sudan, he's found that the raging civil war has meant there's no work, and no income. The country's economy has collapsed, and Hamad said he cannot provide for his family.

The Costs of War Project is a team of 50 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2010. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...