Part IV

The Price Paid

Twenty years measured in billions and in blood. Toggle between the financial ledger and the human cost.

395

UK lives lost

UK MOD - Operation Herrick & Enduring Freedom fatalities

1,891

UK wounded in action

UK MOD - personnel Wounded in Action (WIA); total wounded including non-battle higher

£20.00241990215727bn

UK cost (£bn)

UK MOD / National Audit Office - additional cost of military operations in Afghanistan

$2.0trn

US cost ($trn)

Brown University 'Costs of War' - US total spending incl. Afghanistan, Pakistan & related obligations

Annual Spending - UK vs United States

Dual-axis: UK bars (left, £m additional op cost) vs US line (right, $bn total war spend). Different currencies - comparison is directional only.

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UK additional cost of operations (£m) US total war spending ($bn)

UK: MOD / National Audit Office annual 'Uplift'. US: Brown University 'Costs of War', Afghanistan & Pakistan. UK spending peaked during the Helmand surge (2009-2011).