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Military sexual assaults far exceed DoD estimates, new report finds
The official Pentagon tally of sexual assaults in the military during the past 20-plus years likely undercounts the actual number by at least two to four times, researchers say in a new study.
The Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute compared Defense Department data with figures compiled by independent sources between 2001 and 2023 to calculate its findings. The findings come after more than a decade of efforts to address the prevalence of sexual assault in the military, including several dozen initiatives by defense secretaries and hundreds of recommendations by government panels and task forces. Despite these efforts, military officials put an overarching emphasis on training and deploying troops to Iraq and Afghanistan at the expense ofconfronting “a clear institutional problem of sexual assault,” according to the report.
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