Likely ISIL Ops Costs Up To $3.B A Year, Unless… : CSBA

[unhappycamper]

http://breakingdefense.com/2014/09/likely-isil-ops-costs-up-to-3-b-a-year-unless-csba/

Likely ISIL Ops Costs Up To $3.B A Year, Unless… : CSBA
By Colin Clark and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on September 28, 2014 at 9:43 PM

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has been pegging the operations against the terror group known as ISIL at $7 million to $10 million a day. If you extrapolate that across a year it comes very close to the $3.8 billion estimate that Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has come up with in a new report estimating how much the American taxpayer will pay to “degrade and destroy ISIL.”

Breaking D readers will remember the Friday remarks of Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to the effect that the Pentagon faces budget “problems” because of the ISIL operations and is rebuilding its budget for next year to pay for these operations.

Here are the three scenarios Harrison worked for his estimates:

“Assuming a moderate level of air operations and 2,000 deployed ground forces, the costs would likely run between $200 and $320 million per month. If air operations are conducted at a higher pace and 5,000 ground forces are deployed, the costs would be between $350 and $570 million per month. If operations expand significantly to include the deployment of 25,000 U.S. troops on the ground, as some have recommended, costs would likely reach $1.1 to $1.8 billion per month. On an annualized basis, the lower-intensity air operations could cost $2.4 to $3.8 billion per year, the higher-intensity air operations could cost $4.2 to $6.8 billion per year, and deployment of a larger ground contingent could drive annual costs as high as $13 to $22 billion.”

[CJCRANE]

1. I wonder what the ROI is?

[newfie11]

2. Bankruptcy comes to mind

Unfreaking believable!
There goes what's left of our infrastructure as we can't afford to fix shit.
The new repug president will cut Medicare, SS, Medicaid to pay for it.
You can bet your last cent ( that's all u will have) that the oligarchs will be making a killing in more ways then 1.
We never learn