Mises Daily
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Ralph Raico
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[ Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal (2010)] The war’s direct costs to the United States were: 130,000 combat deaths; 35,000 men permanently disabled; $33.5 billion (plus another $13 billion in veterans’ benefits and interest on the war debt, as of 1931, all in the dollars of those years); perhaps also some portion of the