War Without End: The Hollow Cost of Hegseth's Estimates As the United States continues its protracted conflict with Iran, the numbers begin to add up – or rather, they fail to add up to a coherent strategy.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has estimated that the war's cost so far is $37. 5 billion.
This figure is lower than some estimates, including those from Moody's Analytics, which put the domestic cost of the war at up to $150 billion.