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Policy-makers should perform a cost-benefit analysis before initiating a war. This article describes a methodology for such assessment, and applies it post hoc to five military actions undertaken by the United States between 1950 and 2000 (the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama, and the First Gulf War). The...
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... The Middle East has been shaken by unrest in recent years, through increased violence and instability caused by the Arab springs uprising and the spread of Islamistextremist terrorist organizations with strong anti-Western ideology. For the United States, most countries in the Middle East present the fundamental challenge and necessitate a cost-benefit analysis [14] [31]. When the United States departed from Iraq in 2011, there was little for the massive military investment or earlier allegation that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. ...
