Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “I had the Defense Department’s comptroller, Tina Jonas, calculate the costs of recruiting, training, equipping, and deploying an American, an Iraqi, and an Afghan soldier. She reported [on February 15, 2005] that the cost of training and deploying one American soldier, approximately $107,000 per year, equaled the cost of training and deploying fifty-nine Afghan soldiers at $1,800 each or sixteen Iraqis at $6,500 each.”
– Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 673