Preface; introduction; part i. government spending; 1 what does war cost?; 2 taxes; 3 budget cuts; 4 debt; part ii. broader economic effects; 5. inflation; 6. business under stress; 7. profit and loss in wartime; part three. future costs and how we divide them; 8. the price of failure; 9. a war without sacrifice?; 10. sharing the burden; 11. pay to win; notes; acknowledgments; index; about the author
Summary
Are Americans in denial about the costs of the War on Terror? In The Real Price of War, Joshua S. Goldstein argues that we need to face up to what the war costs the average American--both in taxes and in changes to our way of life. Goldstein contends that in order to protect the United States from future attacks, we must fight--and win--the War on Terror. Yet even as President Bush campaigns on promises of national security, his administration is cutting taxes and increasing deficit spending, resulting in too little money to eradicate terrorism and a crippling burden of national debt for future
