The game has no formal resource management; new units are created automatically at houses, and training new troops costs nothing except mana.
Last year, he said, French operations in Afghanistan, where there are ground troops, cost about $675 million.
"What happens when you start providing government security to private facilities is if you say yes to one, how do you say no to the next and the next?" said Mr. King, who added that 1,000 Guard troops cost about $40 million a year.
"It would result in the death of thousands of innocent Iraqi people, risk the lives of American troops, cost billions of dollars needed for health care, housing, the environment and education, violate international law and destabilize the Middle East," said Mr. Brooks, a World War II veteran.
That's roughly twice the per-troop cost in Iraq.
This is because 1) CBO scores future budget choices against current spending adjusted for inflation and 2) as troops are drawn down to lower levels, even under the Pentagon's plans, this will cost less money than in the past because less troops cost less than more troops: 10,000 troops in Iraq cost much less than 46,000 troops, and 25,000 troops in Afghanistan cost much less than 100,000 troops.
You know how upgraded troops cost more?
To Ron Paul's statement about troop deployment costs, The Times hedged: "not as black and white as Mr. Paul made it sound".
Adding 92,000 ground troops will cost more than $100 billion over the next six years, and maintaining lift capacity will cost billions more.
