Prof. Goodwin Writes on Cost of War in Chronicle of Higher Education

Professor Michele Goodwin wrote an article entitled "Paying for Fraud, Abuse, and Extortion as the Cost of War" for the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm blog. Fighting terrorism at any cost translates to spending $12 million per day on extortion, fraud, and abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as misappropriation of U.S. funds. According to Goodwin, the U.S. philosophy in fighting these wars was to defeat terrorism at "any cost," which has translated to frenetically awarding grants from projects that don't make much sense and seemingly writing blank checks in some instances.