Military construction spending is so profligate it is out of control
Evidence
These are, of course, symptoms of the rampant and shameless profligacy in the military budget as a whole and in the entire military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about. But it’s time someone said it specifically: MilCon is totally and completely out of control. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 813
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Frames MilCon as an instance of Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex warning.
Related
- The Pentagon routinely spends billions on construction with flawed cost analysis and minimal oversight (similarity 0.85)
- Even pro-base analysts describe Pentagon construction as an unbounded bureaucratic machine (similarity 0.82)
- Global military construction spending in 2014 exceeded several entire civilian agencies’ budgets (similarity 0.81)
- Pentagon military construction spending routinely disregards costs and law with little Congressional oversight (similarity 0.81)
- Military expenditure is theft from social needs, Eisenhower argued. (similarity 0.80)
- U.S. military construction spending in 2014 exceeded the budgets of several major federal agencies. (similarity 0.80)
- Congress had long allowed military exercises to bypass construction oversight (similarity 0.80)
- Military construction at unspecified locations likely falls mostly overseas. (similarity 0.79)
- The 2015 military construction bill curtailed unapproved overseas building. (similarity 0.78)