A history of what US wars have cost

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The US's first Gulf War cost $76.1 billion IN TODAY'S DOLLARS, just 1 percent of the annual gross domestic product (GNP). The Civil War and World War II cost more than a year's worth of the GDP.

WAR COSTS AS A PERCENT OF ANNUAL GDP COMPUTED IN 2002 DOLLARS:

Revolutionary Wars: $2.2 billion - 63% of GNP (US victory)

War of 1812: $1.1 billion - 3% of GNP (US victory)

Mexican War: $1.6 billion - 3% of GNP (US victory)

Civil War: $62 billion - 104% of GNP (US Northern victory)

Spanish American War: 9.6 billion - 3% of GNP (US victory)

World War I: $190.6 billion - 24% of GNP (US-allies victory)

World War II: $2.9 trillion - 130% of GNP (US-allies victory)

Korean War: $335.9 billion - 15% of GNP (US-allies ceasefire ongoing)

Vietnam War: $494.3 billion - 12% of GNP (US-allies defeat)

First US Gulf War: $76.1 billion - 1% of GNP (US-allies ceasefire ongoing)

Second US Gulf War: ? ? (ceasefire fails, fighting resumes)

I don't have any data for other US wars, such as Grenada, Panama and Haiti, and in the Balkans and the African continent.

---BumbleBeeBoogie