Linda Bilmes is doing the math

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What the source reports

Kennedy School budget analyst has made it her life’s mission to elucidate the heavy toll of war: ‘If we don’t account for something, we don’t value it.’

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Source & verification

Primary source: Harvard Gazette · September 16, 2026

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