Military Malfeasance

That is possible, however, auditing for business and auditing for government are two completely different things. She could be, technically correct when viewed by government auditing standards, no matter how twisted and Byzantine. Business auditing holds the auditors financially accountable for misstatements and errors government auditing basically asks do the numbers add up. 

I can't say that I feel too sorry for the operator. Perhaps it would have been better had the drone hit the designers. Have they never heard of Skynet.

Oops

Today I went to get my car inspected and buy a couple of new tires. I returned to a place I have been doing business with for almost fifteen years. It is owned by a man who immigrated from Afghanistan many years ago. Over the years, I have had conversations with him about the state of Afghanistan at the time we spoke. As I recall, he has never been a supporter of the Taliban.

I have been curious about how things are in Afghanistan since the Americans left. So I asked him today if he still had contacts in Afghanistan and he confirmed he did. I then asked about the state of affairs there since the withdrawal of American troops. With out any hesitation, he said things were going much better. In particular the amount of corruption had decreased dramatically since the US military left. I found this interesting and started to mention Hamid Karzai and his brother as examples of the corruption, but he said, Karzai and his brother are just one of many such crooks who flourished under the American occupation. 

Actually, this is a typical result of American military/government occupation across the world. There should be no surprise as the government of the United States has a way of throwing money at everything and money attracts corruption and the big money sloshing around the U.S. government coffers attracts big corruption, both in and out of the USA. In fact, I am sure the amount of corruption inside Afghanistan was a pittance compared to the corruption which took place on the American side.

Another intentional action to destroy the USA from within. Does anyone seriously believe an army led by people with degrees in "Equity and Diversity" will be able to win on a modern battlefield. The US Military has had serious troubles for several decades, but it will be all but destroyed shortly.

Yes we can

Pardon my French, but this man is a fucking idiot and war-monger to boot. Trump should shun him like California females shunned the KFF.

The Air Force needs 300-400 B-21 bombers

The corrupt and insane military-industrial-intelligence-foreign-service-financial-congressional complex is always looking for boondoggles based on "patriotism" and fear of the next "boogie man." The Air Force and Navy are particularly slimy and venal in their areas. Think of the bust that is the F-35. The most expensive military project in history and despite what one sometimes hears, the plane is nothing close to what its promoters claimed it would be. The Air Force is already pushing to waste funds on some other 6th generation plane which needs no pilot. The Navy is getting rid of the LCS vessels which it spent billions on. In 2023 alone they are to de-commission 9 of the vessels, some of which weren't on duty even five years. 

When will people finally understand that the main mission of the U.S. military is to make big profits for those connected to the military-industrial-intelligence-foreign-service-financial-congressional complex. This latest budget fight should be proof of that. 

The Heritage Foundation's assessment of the U.S. Military is shocking. I generally discount such reports somewhat as it has long been the case that the Defense Dept. cries "wolf" when asking for money. But even if the Heritage Foundation has a bias in favor of the military, I do not believe they are alarmists by nature.

The link is to the summary of their findings. The full reports would take several hours to read.

The U.S. Military is Weak

The last two paragraphs should send shivers down American spines.


And crooked politicians like Mitch McConnell do nothing to stop the spread of Wokism throughout our armed forces and want to continue to throw more tens-of-billions at the Ukraine even though they have pissed away between US$120 and US$200 billion over the last couple of years. Criminal idiots all.

I agree with everything mentioned in this article. I would go even further. The Pentagon is a criminal racket. It has never been able to pass an audit. It cannot account for tens-of-billions of assets. Just last year it discovered a $6+ billion accounting mistake in funds for the Ukraine. Frankly, I suspect it cannot account hundreds-of-billions in assets.

Since WWII, the military has had financial control problems. But today's military is being run for crooked defense contractors and leftists who wish to create another Red Army. This will not be to defend the country, but to control and erase those who disagree with their woke religion. The lefties are not there yet, but believe me they are rushing to achieve this goal.

Unlike the FBI or CIA, the USA needs a military, but it doesn't need the bloated pack of jackals which make trillions off of "defending the nation" and the prancing wokesters like Millay, who either believe the garbage they spew, or are parasitic whores that one finds in all bureaucracies that go along to suck as much as they can from the public. Thus I would not burn the Pentagon to the ground as I would the CIA and FBI. But I would raze enough of the building to leave only one angle in the edifice. As for the 800 military bases around the world, I would close the vast majority of them and sell the land to the highest bidder.

Interesting that the writers should mention John Hopkins' SAIS. My main polysci professor, with whom I kept contact until around 2010 had his PhD from SAIS.

Reform the military

This DEI rot is far more advanced that I think even we figured. I'm also in agreement that our armed forced could indeed be a paper tiger.