DOD spent $6.5 billion on 'unused,' 'abandoned' and 'destroyed' infrastructure in

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New SIGAR report details just some of the $143 billion in infrastructure spending the U.S. has invested in Afghanistan since 2002.

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the United States has spent "an estimated $864.2 billion ... for all U.S. activities in Afghanistan since 2001," according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction's latest High-Risk List report to Congress. About $143 billion of that total went toward reconstruction efforts.

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According to a SIGAR report from late February, the U.S. government has spent at least $7.8 billion to construct or fund schools, prisons, hospitals, roads, bridges, a hotel, and several Afghan military facilities since 2008. The DOD provided $6.5 billion of that $7.8 billion.
The report found that at least $2.4 billion's worth of fully funded assets were ultimately "unused or abandoned" or possibly "had not been used for their intended purpose, had deteriorated, or were destroyed." The hotel, for instance, was a $60 million project that was never completed. The business never became operational, and the dilapidated structure currently sits abandoned in the middle of Kabul.
The report goes on to reveal that just $1.2 billion of the $7.8 billion was spent for its intended purpose, and of those funds, just $343.2 million worth of assets were "maintained in good condition."

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