Militarybudgetcutsnow.org Blog

One of the great organizations that I have worked with for years is the National Priorities Project (NPP), which meticulously breaks down the costs of war & the costs of a war economy, and contrasts those costs with what needed social goods we could buy with the same amount of money, social goods such as health care, new schools, child care, food, housing, etc. NPP also does a great job with its charts and comparisons, making these costs accessible to everyone.
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

One of their latest excellent efforts is a research report by Anita Dancs, an Assistant Professor at Western New England College, in conjunction with Mary Orisich & Suzanne Smith of NPP, to set out "The Military Cost of Securing Energy." They estimate that "...the United States is spending between $97 and $215 billion dollars annually on military action to defend access to oil and natural gas reserves around the globe."
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Energy_Security/Energy_Priorities