What is the pentagon doing with one trillion dollars this year?

Eric and Don Jr's drone companies

You see the wishlist that was pumped out earlier this year? They've got to pay the Military Industrial Complex for the frick up's that need to be fixed, the future frick up's in the planning stages, and the frick up's already under construction. The Pentagon has a massive problem called Congress. Instead of purchasing the best available equipment from wherever, Congress mandates everything be American made to keep their financial contributions coming in from Defense Contractors

Who is so powerful they don't get audited?

A not-insignificant amount of the Pentagon’s budget goes to things that can’t be listed and are geared towards using and developing things that can’t be public. I get that.

That said, the United States Department of Defense is also the single biggest waster (if that is a word) of money in the history of the planet.

Two things can be true. But the Navy in particular has generally been an enormous waste of money for three decades. I believe we’re on our fourth consecutive new ship design that’s been billions of dollars in before realizing that what we designed won’t work (Zumwalts and DDGX and FFG) or that what we built was totally useless (LCS program)

Is there any part of the federal government more useless and ineffective than Naval procurement?


We can barely put out a Burke and an SSN per year. Carriers take a decade. Any new class of ship takes a decade to lay a keel. Totally embarrassing. We will lose naval supremacy because of our dogshit building capacity.

$500 hammers, $1000 toilet seats

Our allies in Moscow and Pyongyang.

A massive percentage of the defense budget is wasted on pensions, benefits, and services. It’s a bloated bureaucracy that needs to be downsized dramatically. It’s unsustainable

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I agree. There's surely some of that, but the expense of researching and developing new military technologies, especially in space, must have astronomical cost.
And the Pentagon surely can't share that information with the public

Nobody asked for blueprints to a hypersonic missile.

I have been thinking about that a lot with the news the past few weeks. I heard someone say the problem is the MIC exists to get contractors rich, not properly equip our military.