(Paywall-bypassing link. Which means you lose the "interactive" part of this piece, but the article itself is the real meat.)
Broken clock, etc. But yeah, this piece calls out the ludicrous ways the military's budget is handled, and hooked me right from the get-go about this thing that started in Obama's first term:
In 2011, the Army decided to get its soldiers new pistols. The odyssey that followed included a 350-page list of technical specifications, years of testing and a protracted battle on Capitol Hill between competing gun makers. The Pentagon won’t complete delivery until 2027 at the earliest. The Army could have raised an infantryman from birth to within two years of enlistment age in the time it will have taken to get him a new handgun.
We also get Congress throwing tech at the military that the military doesn't even want, tons of cronyism, and lots of other fun bits.
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