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CSIS estimated Operation Epic Fury's first 100 hours cost $3.7 billion
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- War costs
- Posture:
- Independent estimate — not audited expenditure
CSIS estimated approximately $3.7 billion, or $891.4 million per day, across operations, munitions replacement and attrition during the campaign's first 100 hours. It identified substantial uncertainty and later updated its estimates; the figure is not a final Pentagon accounting.
Dated sources
- — Center for Strategic and International Studies (Independent defense-cost estimate)
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CSIS estimated Operation Epic Fury's first 100 hours cost $3.7 billion. Donaldtrumpler.com. https://donaldtrumpler.com/records/2026-03-05-epic-fury-first-100-hours-cost/
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