Pentagon military construction spending routinely disregards costs and law with little Congressional oversight

Evidence

Repeatedly, one sees the Pentagon making decisions to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars based on incomplete data, shoddy math, little or no attempt to consider cheaper alternatives, and cost analyses that appear to be either incompetent or intentionally manipulated. A long, regular stream of GAO reports provides abundant evidence of the problems. Unfortunately, each report appears in isolation, and they generally portray the problems as unrelated incidents. Rarely does anyone point out the larger pattern: the Pentagon, the armed services, and many of their component parts are spending many, many billions of MilCon dollars with what frequently appears to be a willful disregard for costs and the law and little or no oversight by Congress. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 812

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader research on how overseas bases harm America — here the harm includes financial waste at home. — connects to: Military construction spending exemplifies unchecked military-industrial profligacy — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 813
• SEED: Could seed an article on the systemic pattern behind isolated GAO reports on military construction waste.