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there's so much graft in the US mil apparatus, none of the allocation ever seems to reach the bottom. i remember when all those stories came out where like soldiers in iraq had family back home organize fund raising to get like body armor and basic shit.
the administration dismissed the obvious contradiction of trillions going missing as "you go to war with the army you've got not the army you want".
the war machine is a paper tiger. it has just enough bombs and ammunition to discourage disorganized resistance, but there is no meat left on the bone. its all gobbled up by the hogs.