The Best of Reason: The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn't Need

How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary "self-licking ice cream cones."

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The Best of Reason: The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn't Need

This week's featured article is "The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn't Need" by Matthew Petti.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL S and "Sunsettling" by Man With Roses

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[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

Based on the last 2 weeks at Reason, it would be wrong to audit and cut the funding.

[Don't look at me!]

YOU HAVE TO ASK CONGRESS FIRST!

[JesseAz (mean girl ambassador)]

But Trump was the sole reason for spending during covid!!

[Don’t get eliminated]

Sad only three people came here to comment, and at least two of them came to make the same point, and the third at least agreed with it.

[charliehall]

Defense contractors have been ripping off the United States of America aince 1776. And it won't end as long as most members of Congress consider the Defense budget as either (1) a jobs program or (2) a testosterone shot. The new SecDef is like the latter.

[Lester75]

We can save way more money by cracking down on Pentagon waste then by zeroing out school lunch subsidies to states. I look forward to Musk’s teenagers taking on the military industrial complex.