OT:Why Isn't DOGE Looking at Defence Spending?

Defense spending is nearing $! trillion annually.
US defense is unable to supply adequate numbers of artillery & missile munitions.
Procurement is a cluster*@!k!
Littoral Combat Ships decommissioned before they deploy—a $30 billion experiment that could not survive contact with reality.
Destroyers delayed by years—the Zumwalt class, conceived as revolutionary, delivered as dysfunctional.
the F-35C, a symbol of joint acquisition dysfunction.
Ford aircraft carrier class is a nightmare of technical & cost problems.
And shipyards that can’t build or repair on schedule.
And now add a lack of maintenance to combat vehicles.

It would seem that the US DOD oops DOW is in dire need of efficiency.

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Well the money is getting to the people who want it so I guess it is highly efficient. It’ the never-mentioned, ever-present subtext of what people mean by “efficiency.” It’s about getting the money, not providing the goods and services, which are a mere pretense to get the money. An economic drag.

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LOL
Good one!
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