Cost of Kosovo Intervention

If Gulf costs $70 B and Vietnam $500 B, what about Kosovo?

Munitions: $400 M/month

• Missiles. Tomahawks are $1 M; a cruise missile refitted with conventional explosives is $2 M; about $9 M per day.
• Bombs. Missiles $ 0.34 M; smart bombs $ 0.05 M -- 80/day.

Personnel: $200 M/month

• Imminent danger pay. Combat soldiers receive an extra $1800-270O per year; reservists and extra $40,000 per year.
• Past experience. Deploying/sustaining an extra 27,000 troops should cost $200 M/month; $300 M if troops in combat.
• Lost of equipment. Impossible to estimate but some items are expensive: Apache helicopter $18 M; Abrams tank $4 M

Aircraft: over $90 M/month

• Sorties. F-16 sortie costs $6000; F/A-18 $17,000; B-2 bomber 30-hour run from Missouri to Serbia and back is $1.6 M.
• Downed aircraft. F-117A costs $45 M; A-10 $6 M; B-2 $2 B.
• Past experience: 1 aircraft/5000 sorties; 400 sorties per day. So far: F-117, F-16, 2 Apache & pilotless "drones."

Everything else, if war expands.

• Aircraft-carriers group at sea would cost $2.8 M/day.
• Relief. Estimate of $ 60 M/month for refugee/relief expenses.
• Peace keeping. Congressional Budget office estimates that 4000 peace-keeping troops in Kosovo would cost $50 M/month.