Image: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon for ProPublica. Source images: Navy/Released, U.S. Treasury via Wikimedia Commons, Air National Guard photo by Airman Phyel Richardson.

ProPublica reports: The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spending.

The sums are vast, but the explanations for the spending range from vague to inscrutable. Consider these items in the law that funded the Department of Defense this year…”

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