Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Capitol Hill conservatives and Pentagon brass fighting cuts to defense spending have argued that the military is limping off the battlefield with decrepit hardware. It's quite the sob story. But a new report shows the DOD has blown roughly $1 trillion on shiny new tanks, ships, and jets since the 9/11 attacks--and it's often done so with dollars that were supposed to be spent on those troops on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan. |