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  Waste in U.S. Military Budget irrelevant weapons, bloated officer corps, "a brontosaurus with three teeth"

• Details of Waste in Supplemental Budget
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• Military Budget Mess --no audit, little tracking Military Budget Pork--- example
• Base Closings Overseas  done to keep needless bases (425) open inside U.S.--military budget as pork and welfare
• Major Rethinking of Budget Priorities --less for Navy and Air Force super weapons-- Congressmen will scream at loss of military "pork" --carriers, fighter planes, bases
• Pentagon Scales Back Super Weapons but Florida Congressmen Want Keep Extra Carrier -- military budget as political pork
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• $500 Billion for Military Busting Budget --new look at unnecessary F-22
• • U.S. Army now 20% women, reserves 30%
  • Congress Backs Pentagon Budget Heavy on Future Weapons   F-22 has 1,000 sub-contractors in 43 states
  • Helicopter Vulnerabilities 70 lost as of 5/21 according Congress testimony Army Chief of Staff
  • Military Equipment Wearing Out Fast --tens of Billions more costs coming
  • All War All the Time --4th Generation Warfare
  • $150 Million Each F-22  $43 billion so far --cost over runs
• + Military Replaces State Department   America's Pro-consuls -Wash. Post
•  $50+ Billion savings per year--Rudman Report on purchasing, management, sub-contracts, base closing
• Military's Bloated Budget --nukes, fighter planes, subs -more & more
• Costs of Modern Weaponry
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• Navy Uses More Civilians  big Savings 8,000 men = $1 Billion per year
• Fake Testing of Missile Defense, Cover up, Billions Being Wasted
• Untested & Unproven Missile Shield Being Constructed wasting more tens of Billions
• GAO Faults Haste of Missile Defense Development also secrecy allows corruption
• The Waste on Offensive Weapons   F-22's to fight Russian planes which don't exist   Osprey Costing More Billions --time to cancel it
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• Ruining a Great Army   Knight-Ridder report
• Military Budget Breakdown --interesting
• Anti-Missile Contract Won on Technicality  Bush Admin. put secrecy on program to hide costs or failures
• Bush Plans $451 Billion Military Budget for '07 -$200 billion more than when he took office -- mostly for offensive weaponry
• Budget firmly under military/indus. complex control--Dougherty in WorldNetDaily
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• The Costs of World Empire 29 billion for CIA (+$50 Billion for the Gulf fleet) to fight enemies that we ourselves create (and now $10-20 billion for Kosovo? ed.)
• US Costs for Bombing Iraq --half a billion for 4 days, $50 Billion for fleet
• Military Computers Easily Accessed --major security breaches
• Where the Money Will Go  listing the firms
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• Anti-Missile Contract Won on Technicality  Bush Admin. put secrecy on program to hide costs or failures
• Bush Plans $451 Billion Military Budget for '07 --nearly 200 billion more than when he took office -- mostly for offensive weaponry
• Unaccountable Missile Defense Costs -Rumsfeld covers up losses and incestuous control by manufacturers of programs
• GAO Say Pentagon Fudged Anti-Missile Test
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• Trucks, not Missiles, Will Bring Bombs --Hackworth on StarWars-$100 Bil. waste + create new arms race 
• New Navy Nuclear Bombs -Don't we have enough?
• Real Reform for Military Hillen in NY TIMES --what's necessary and how to do it
• Project on Defense Alternatives --top info & analysis Defense issues
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• Why a 2 war strategy? Why are we spending nearly as much as before communist collapse?
• Missile Defense Arguments --by Luttwak-getting closer to Rus.
• U.S. Move towards First Strike Capability --after Iraq, Kosovo, Haiti, Panama
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• Restarting Nuclear Arms Race --NYT --new proliferation?
• Military Readiness & Defense Accounting Errors --using Hayekian theory on corrupted information 
• Growing Foreign Alliances Against American Hegemony -- Wash. Post by Chris Layne --consequences of bombing--"the geopolitical backlash"