The Pentagon’s Guam buildup budget massively understates true relocation costs by more than half.

Evidence

The Government Accountability Office has repeatedly shown that the Pentagon’s budgets for the move dramatically underestimate expenses and are simply “not reliable.” The GAO’s cost estimate of 23.8 billion is more than double the Pentagon's 10.3 billion figure. The GAO points out that although Congress has asked for a master plan for the move, the Pentagon still doesn’t have one—almost a decade into one of the largest and costliest military transformations in history. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 257

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete parallel to the account of military base planning dysfunction and cost underestimates in earlier chapters of this same book.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 257