U.S. Spending More Per Soldier Than Ever
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With military costs since Sept. 11, 2001, now expected to exceed &#36;300 billion, the Pentagon is spending more per soldier to fight in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere than it did during earlier conflicts.
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The Bush administration plans to announce Tuesday it will request about &#36;80 billion more for this year's costs of fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, congressional aides said Monday.
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BEIJING, March 4 -- China announced Sunday it will increase military spending at a sharply higher rate this year, budgeting a rise of nearly 18 percent, and a senior U.S. official immediately called for more clarity on what the expenditures are for.
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The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than &#36;17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press.
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The increase would boost American forces in the country to 27,000, the highest level since 2001.
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With the U.S. military heavily  engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior general said on  Thursday he expected the Pentagon will make permanent a  temporary increase of 30,000 soldiers in the Army.
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President Bush and Congress are headed toward another showdown on war spending, this time sparring over nearly $190 billion the Pentagon says is needed to keep combat in Iraq afloat for another year.
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The Bush administration is seeking  about $80 billion in new funding for military operations this  year in Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing the total for both  conflicts to almost $300 billion so far.
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It will cost about $3 billion to send extra U.S. troops to Iraq in support of the 21,500 already being deployed under President George W. Bush's reworked war strategy, the White House said on Saturday.
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WASHINGTON -- A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week -- nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last year -- as the Pentagon spends more on establishing regional bases to support the extended deployment and scrambles to ...
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The Pentagon unveiled a plan on  Tuesday to nearly double to about $500,000 the cash payments  for families of U.S. forces killed in combat, responding to  demands from the U.S. Congress to improve benefits for troops  in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The high cost of waging war is expected to swell the US budget deficit to $2.3-trillion (US) over the next decade, including a record $422-billion in the current fiscal year
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The Bush administration plans to  announce as early as Tuesday that it will seek about $80  billion in new funding for military operations this year in  Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing the total for both conflicts to  almost $300 billion so far.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraqi insurgents are growing more effective and it will take time to get US troops the $4 billion in armor they need for protection, defense officials said yesterday. ''This is not Wal-Mart ,&quot; one general said.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost at least $190 billion in 2008, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, making it the most expensive year in the conflicts since they were launched by President George W. Bush.
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The Defense Department will increase the number of troops in Iraq by 12,000, Joint Staff officials said at a Pentagon news conference today.
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The Defense Department's new civilian personnel system will cost more than the $158 million estimated by the Pentagon, a congressional report suggests.