{"id":86346,"date":"2026-03-12T21:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86346"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:24:48","slug":"first-six-days-of-the-iran-war-cost-more-than-11-3b-pentagon-tells-congress-in-closed-door-briefing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/first-six-days-of-the-iran-war-cost-more-than-11-3b-pentagon-tells-congress-in-closed-door-briefing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"First six days of the Iran war cost more than $11.3B, Pentagon tells Congress in closed-door briefing: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/03\/11\/23\/32\/GettyImages-2265017213.jpg\" alt=\"The $11.3 billion figure does not include the costs of personnel buildup and hardware accrued before the first attack on February 28\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first six days of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iran-us-trump-war-oil-prices-israel-qatar-latest-news-b2935224.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">war with Iran<\/a> cost the U.S. more than $11.3 billion, Pentagon officials reportedly told Congress in a closed-door briefing on Tuesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/iran-war-cost-pentagon-b2936829.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The first six days of the\u00a0war with Iran cost the U.S. more than $11.3 billion, Pentagon officials reportedly told Congress in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Trump.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86347,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86346\/revisions\/86347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}