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This is atypical for the MIC/DoD who wasted trillions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Still can't pass an audit, gave out pallets of cash, built diesel power plants th
by burnt-resistor 3mo ago
This is atypical for the MIC/DoD who wasted trillions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Still can't pass an audit, gave out pallets of cash, built diesel power plants that were uneconomical to run, and let contractors embezzle money for unnecessary repairs and nonexistent deliveries.
The garden variety waste is losing inventory of $100k aviation parts or damaging and then replacing similarly expensive parts on maneuvers without concern for damage or cost.
- pseudohadamard 3mo agoFor a depressing read on this there's "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People", Peter Van Buren's first-hand account of the catastrofuck that was post-war Iraq.