The total cost of the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is closing in on half a billion dollars.
Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria cost the Pentagon about $7.6 million a day, according to Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby and reported by the Wall Street Journal.
That brings the total of “Operation Inherent Resolve” to more than $424 million for 10 weeks of work.
An existing wartime fund is being used by the Department of Defense to pay for the airstrikes, but the growing sum is expected to be prominent on congressional radar.
By comparison, a study released in March 2013 revealed the Iraq war of 2003-2011 cost the United States $1.7 trillion, with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans.
