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Why does America's military underperform so much, despite all the funding? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Many good answers in the replies but one I haven't seen is that military departments in the US lose their budget if they don't use it which creates a huge incentive to be extremely wasteful. Especially in aerospace.