Six months into a war that was promised to last weeks, the United States now confronts a $38 billion bill, depleted arsenals, and an inflation forecast that will reach ordinary Americans long before any peace does. A nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report has given numerical form to what many suspected: the costs of the US-Iran conflict extend well beyond the battlefield, touching supply chains, energy markets, and the household budgets of voters who will cast midterm ballots in November. Wars rarely end on the timelines their architects announce, and the distance between that original
Iran war costs $38bn, strains US munitions and inflation, CBO finds
American servicemembers have been killed and wounded in the six-month conflict.