Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 01/2015

Nonfatal Casualties and the Changing Costs of War

Tanisha M. Fazal

November 2014

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Abstract

Improvements in military medicine are costly to implement, and their costs are often ignored. Governments must begin to adjust their estimates of the costs of war to include the effects of increases in nonfatal casualties.