Sources: ABC News AFRICOM Al Jazeera American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt Arab News Army Times Asharq Al-Awsat BBC The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Caravanserai Country Reports on Terrorism, U.S. Research assistance by Rachel McMahon, Emily Rockwell, Dacus Thompson Even so, the vast reach evident here may prompt Americans to ask whether the war on terror has met its goals, and whether they are worth the human and financial costs. efforts to combat terrorism abroad are likely more extensive than this map shows.

The State Department has spent $127 billion in the last 17 years to train police, military and border patrol agents in many countries and to develop antiterrorism education programs, among other activities.īecause we have been conservative in our selections, U.S. The war isn’t being waged by the military alone, which has spent $1.9 trillion fighting terrorism since 2001. We found that, contrary to what most Americans believe, the war on terror is not winding down-it has spread to more than 40 percent of the world’s countries. and the military’s United States Africa Command and we conducted interviews with journalists, academics and others. and foreign government sources, published and unpublished reports, military websites and geographical databases we contacted foreign embassies in the U.S. To develop it, my colleagues and I at Brown University’s Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, along with Smithsonian magazine, combed through U.S. military and government antiterrorist actions overseas in the past two years. This map is the most comprehensive depiction in civilian circles of U.S. Bush is truly global, with Americans actively engaged in countering terrorism in 80 nations on six continents.

More than 17 years later, the Global War on Terrorism initiated by President George W. troops-with support from British, Canadian, French, German and Australian forces-invaded Afghanistan to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S.

Countries currently in armed conflict