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Here’s How the Military Wasted Your Money in 2014 New year, old problems The U.S. Congress approved $581 billion in military spending for 2014. That number includes the Pentagon’s base budget plus the Overseas Contingency Operations fund that pays for America’s various wars. Shitty super-weapons (F-35, Littoral Combat Ships, M1A1 Tank) Lazy ineffective Defense Logistics …

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Huge Waste In $604 Billion Defense Bill Heads For Obama Veto The $604 billion defense spending bill now nears passage with many billions of dollars in rampant defense waste scattered throughout. Aircraft waste on the pricey but flawed F-35, Navy waste on a next generation of nuclear submarines, and systemic waste in unchecked new weapons, …

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How the Pentagon Lost Track of $45 Billion It’s almost impossible to audit what taxpayers have spent to rebuild Afghanistan Since 2002, Congress has set aside $104 billion specifically to rebuild Afghanistan. Of that, $66 billion went to the Pentagon. Recently, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction asked the military to account for all …

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Pentagon could waste $100 million overpaying for spare parts, watchdog says The Pentagon could wind up overpaying more than $100 million for spare aircraft parts because a contracting agent didn’t check that he was getting the right prices, an investigative report found in May.