BREAKING: The War That Was “Won In The First Hour” Has Cost $11.3 Billion In Its First Six Days. And That Number Does Not Include The Munitions

Pentagon officials briefed a closed-door session of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defence on 11th March with the figure.

The New York Times and NBC News both confirmed the number from sources in the room. The $11.3 billion covers operational costs for six days.

It excludes munitions, infrastructure damage to US facilities, and long-term force sustainment. The munitions alone cost $5.6 billion in the first two days, reported separately by the New York Times.

Add the munitions back. The first six days of the war cost at minimum $16.9 billion. That is $2.8 billion per day. One hundred seventeen million dollars per hour.

Nearly two million dollars per minute. For a war the President declared won from a stage in Hebron, Kentucky, on the same day the Pentagon briefed Congress that it has already spent more than the annual GDP of Iceland.

The figure does not include what the war has cost the other side of the ledger. It does not include the $600 million in daily Middle East tourism losses reported by the Financial Times.

It does not include the 30,000 cancelled flights. It does not include the insurance collapse that removed 90% of commercial tonnage from Hormuz. It does not include the $40 billion in annual regional tourism revenue at risk.

It does not include the WTI surge to $92 that is taxing every American driver at the pump.

It does not include the 400 million barrels the IEA just released from strategic reserves that were built over decades and will take years to replenish.

The Iraq War cost $12.5 billion in its first month. The Iran war exceeded that in six days. The Iraq War eventually cost $2 trillion over twenty years.

The Iran war is burning through money at a rate that would reach $1 trillion in twelve months if sustained, and it is accelerating, not decelerating, because the enemy just announced continuous strikes and the intelligence community just confirmed the regime is not collapsing.

Congress is divided on exactly the lines you would expect. Republicans support the President. Democrats want more information before approving supplemental funding.

Senator Chris Coons estimated the true cost is higher than the briefed figure. The Pentagon acknowledged the number is incomplete.

And the war that was supposed to be a “short-term excursion” is now generating a funding debate that mirrors Iraq 2003, Afghanistan 2009, and every American war that began with a declaration of quick victory and ended with a decade of appropriations hearings.See more, details. .