Embed: Total Cost of Wars Since 2001

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<script src="https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/war/js/"></script>

Add the following code wherever you want the counter to show up:

<div id="npp-widget-war" class="npp-widget"></div>

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A Note About Style

We've intentionally left out any styles for this embeddable counter, instead leaving it up to you to provide styles consistent with the look of your site. To aid in that process, here's the HTML markup that will be generated from the embed code:

<div id="npp-widget-war" class="npp-widget">
    <h3 class="npp-widget-title">
        Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
    </h3>
    <p class="npp-widget-summary">
        Every <span> hr(s)</span>,
        taxpayers in <span></span>
        are paying <span>$###</span>
        for <span>Total Cost of Wars Since 2001</span>.
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    <p id="npp-widget-war-total" class="npp-widget-total">
        $###,###,###
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    <p class="npp-widget-meta">
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           title="Brought to you by the National Priorities Project">
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        </a>
    </p>
</div>

About This Counter: Total Cost of Wars Since 2001

This counter displays the total cost, since 2001, of all spending through the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account, including spending for conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, the fight against ISIS, and non-war spending through the Pentagon slush fund, in nominal (non-inflation-adjusted) dollars. This includes all of the funding that has been appropriated by Congress for OCO through the end of fiscal year 2015 on Sept. 30, 2015.

For more detail, see Notes & Sources.