For Journalists
Press kit: the data, the citation, and a person to call.
MilitarySpend is built to be cited. Every dataset behind the trackers is downloadable here with no email gate, released under CC-BY 4.0, with the citation line already written for you.
Download the data
Matching CSV and JSON pairs, rebuilt on every deploy from the same configs that drive the live trackers. No signup, no email gate. Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 — free to publish and adapt with credit.
Headline Iran-war figures in a single file: iran-war-snapshot.json. Field-by-field notes: data README. Full catalog and license terms: militaryspend.org/data.
Cite us like this
Copy a line, swap in the page title, path, or dataset name you used. The access date is today’s date — keep it if you are quoting a live tracker, since the figure moves.
Plain text / broadcast
Data: MilitarySpend.org — https://militaryspend.org/data. Figures accessed September 25, 2026.Academic
Kukhalashvili, Roman. "Page Title." MilitarySpend, https://militaryspend.org/page-path. Accessed September 25, 2026.Dataset
MilitarySpend.org (2026). <Dataset name>. https://militaryspend.org/data — CC-BY 4.0Use the page title
When citing a tracker or briefing, name the exact page and avoid collapsing it into a generic reference to the site.
Add the timestamp
Live pages should be treated as time-sensitive estimates. Include the access date or publication date so readers know which version you used.
State the method
If the figure depends on an approximation layer, say so. Readers should not be left guessing whether the number is measured or modeled.
Methodology, in plain language
- We start from the public source of record — SIPRI, official budgets, CBO/CRS material, procurement releases — and isolate the exact claim before publishing it.
- Year, currency, and scope are normalized before figures are compared, so nominal and inflation-adjusted values are never silently mixed.
- Every figure is labelled: reported, estimated, projected, or inferred. Contested numbers are published as low-high ranges, not single points.
- Superseded figures are logged rather than overwritten, and corrections are disclosed on a public page.
The full write-up, including how uncertainty is handled and when a page gets revised, is on the methodology page.
What we can provide
All of it is free and there is no exclusivity condition attached.
Custom data cuts
A filtered slice of any published dataset — one country, one state, one date range, or a joined view across two files — delivered as CSV.
Expert comment
Attributable comment from Roman Kukhalashvili, founder of MilitarySpend, on defense budgets, war-cost estimation, and how the trackers reach a number.
Chart images
Static image exports of any chart on the site, sized for web or print, free to publish with credit to MilitarySpend.org.
Figure verification
A pre-publication check on whether a figure is safe to quote, what caveat belongs next to it, and which underlying source carries it.
Contact
MilitarySpend is an independent publication run by Roman Kukhalashvili, who handles press requests directly. Email kukhalashvili09@gmail.com or message @kuxala09. Wider partnership and syndication questions go through contact.
Put your deadline in the subject line. Expect a reply within one working day, and same-day when the deadline is inside 24 hours. If the ask is broader than a citation check, the reports and briefings archives are public.
Running the story online? The live US-Iran war cost counter drops into a page with one line of HTML — grab the embed code.