Tag: Pentagon

Despite troop reductions, the Pentagon's war budget is increasing.

Slush Funds, Smoke and Mirrors, and Funny Money Equal Weapons Systems Galore

Five decades later, the military waste machine Is running full speed ahead.

In 2015, the U.S. government spent $598 billion on the military, more than half of its total discretionary budget, and nearly 10 times what it spent on education.

In response to a FOIA request, the Pentagon admits that its master list of contracts is not searchable and it has no clue how many specific items it has on hand.

We must ask whether an institution, the military, supposedly endowed with supernal character by objective circumstances, is to master us, or we to master it by determining for ourselves what it properly is and does.

In movie terms, you could think of Washington’s war policies in the post-9/11 era as pure “play it again, Sam.”

An institutional report card with so many deficits and failures, a record of deportment that has led to death and mayhem, should not be ignored. The military must be called to account.

Will American “successes” lead to more Iraqi military failures?

With tens of thousands of sexual assaults occurring annually in the military, the country’s national security becomes under threat when troops can no longer trust their own colleagues.