> It would appear to be $500+ million wasted, fairly typically, by the Pentagon brass.
The DoD was chewing through an average of $1 billion a day for about 2 years during the height of the Iraq war. It would be a stretch to say that it was all used to the best efficiency.
Meanwhile, NASA is gutted, our education and mental health systems are downright broken, and healthcare has become the other great waster in our economy. Bad times.
I think before anyone from the Pentagon is allowed to even think about invading a desert again, we have to make them read the entire Dune saga. I realize only the first one matters in this case, the rest is for punishment.
> I think before anyone from the Pentagon is allowed to even think about invading a desert again, we have to make them read the entire Dune saga. I realize only the first one matters in this case, the rest is for punishment.
AFAICT, the people "from the Pentagon" (and particularly, the career military types, including the senior uniformed leadership) were generally very well locked into what the issues were; the political leadership (much of it outside the Pentagon) far less so.
The DoD was chewing through an average of $1 billion a day for about 2 years during the height of the Iraq war. It would be a stretch to say that it was all used to the best efficiency.