In the United States, about one sixth of the federal budget goes to defense.  Why are many Americans so passive in the face of the massive expenditures for defense that crowd out spending on human needs like education, healthcare and infrastructure? Why does much of the media accept the status quo? And is all of this spending making Americans and the world any safer?Our guest to help tackle these questions is anthropologist Stephanie Savell. Savell is the Co-Director of<a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar"> Costs of War at Brown University</a>, an interdisciplinary research project focused on the impact of the post 9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond; the U.S. global military footprint; and the domestic effects of US military spending. Savell's own research highlights US military involvement around the world, most notably in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. In many of these places, American assistance has served to fuel existing conflicts, and provided governments with tools and justification to target Muslim populations. But, Savell says, it doesn’t have to be this way. MORE FROM COSTS OF WAR<a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/USCounterterrorismOperations">Stephanie Savell’s map of US counterterrorism operations 2021-2023</a><a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2021/Post911SecurityAssistance">The Costs of United States’ Post-9/11 “Security Assistance”: How Counterterrorism Intensified Conflict in Burkina Faso and Around the World</a> by Stephanie Savell <a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/CopCity">Why Media Conflation of Activism with Terrorism Has Dire Consequences: The Case of Cop City</a> by Deepa Kumar
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