Annual Cost of Air Conditioning for US War Soldiers Greater Than NASA Budget

  The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.
That's more than NASA's budget.

"When you consider the cost to deliver the fuel to some of the most isolated places in the world — escorting, command and control, medevac support — when you throw all that infrastructure in, we're talking over $20 billion," Steven Anderson tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel Martin. Anderson is a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. David Patreaus' chief logistician in Iraq.

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Uncle Coonie Says:

The total cost of these wars is not measured in dollars alone, but rather with lives lost & nations destroyed...ALL nations!