Pentagon Discloses Stunning Account of Russia’s Losses
The US military released an estimate of large equipment and personnel losses over the course of the three-month long attack on Ukraine, which is still ongoing. A senior defense official…
Giving the Pentagon billions of additional dollars it never requested
Congress can’t help itself when it comes to spending, and that’s long been true of spending on the Department of Defense. The DoD was initially scheduled for a very modest…
GAO: F-35 threatens to become a program the DoD can no longer afford
The Defense Department is one of the largest line items in the federal budget. Hundreds of billions of dollars each year are devoted to sustaining and maintaining our armed forces,…
Pentagon Says it’s on Track to Pass an Audit – in 2028
The Department of Defense has yet to pass an independent audit of its books, having failed three times to assemble balance sheets that can pass muster. But the DoD is…
A Pentagon Watchdog Office is Quietly Erased
Buried inside the annual Defense Department spending bill approved in the last Congress was a small section that, on first glance looks innocent enough. But as Jonathan Bydlak writes, those…
Pentagon Fails Another Financial Audit, but Urges Patience as it Gets its Books in Order
The Department of Defense has failed yet another financial audit, the third since such audits began in 2018. But according to the Pentagon’s comptroller, Thomas Harker, there is hope the…
Pentagon IG: Unresolved Problems are Costing Money, and Making it Harder to Save Lives
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The Pentagon’s inspector general has issued an annual review of unresolved issues at the department and found the backlog – and cost, in…
