Dalek Cost of Afghan War

Cost of the War in Afghanistan

The 2nd Anglo Boer war cost around 210 million pounds.

Using the 1898 budget, the Boer war cost about 5 years of defence spending or 2 years of total government spending.

The Vietnam war cost was reported as 168 billion us dollars.

The 1964 budget spent 118 billion dollars with 65.4 billion on defense.

The Vietnam war cost was about 3 years of defense spending and almost 2 years government spending

The war in Afghanistan reportedly cost 2 trillion dollars.

Since it was a long war, the year of 2005 is arbitrarily selected.

In 2005 six hundred billion was spent on defense out of 2.47 trillion total.

The Afghanistan war was about three years of defence spending and just under one year of
government spending.

The three wars are roughly comparable in size and fiscal cost.

Consider if England had been ejected from the Boer lands in 1902.

Recall the USA evacuating Vietnam.

This is the magnitude of the Afghanistan fiasco.