Less than a year's GDP for that many years of war including Veteran's benefits seems pretty cheap as wars go.
That is not an analysis of whether it could've been spent better, just a statement about war costs generally. Clearly not a total war at all. Barely a partial one.
That is not an analysis of whether it could've been spent better, just a statement about war costs generally. Clearly not a total war at all. Barely a partial one.