For Pentagon, $1 Trillion Buys a Lot of Overspending

A new report by the Stimson Center shows the Pentagon spent $1 trillion on weapons in the past 10 years, with annual spending more than doubling from the $60 billion in 2001 to $136 billion in 2010.

The report showed the Army in many cases bought things entirely by accident, including buying three times as many M4 rifles as they intended and buying 2,000 Stryker ground vehicles they didn’t want.

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Author: Jason Ditz

Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.