> Clearly they are not blowing through an entire year's defense budget in three days (that would be over 100x the usual rate of spend!). The figure in the arti

> Clearly they are not blowing through an entire year's defense budget in three days (that would be over 100x the usual rate of spend!). The figure in the article includes losses; indeed, it speaks of costs, not spending. Of course losses can obliterate many years of budget, if you're losing permanent assets that took literal decades to build up! Armies don't get rebuilt from scratch every year.