26 Feb 2018

Military – The Public Good Index

by | Date: 26 Feb 2018 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Number of years the DOD has failed to satisfy a 1993 Congress mandate that all federal agencies be audited: 35.

Amount of military spending that could not be account for as of 2016: $6.5 trillion.

Source: Pentagon’s Sloppy Bookkeeping Means $6.5 Trillion Can’t Pass an Audit, The Fiscal Times, 2016.

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Amount of military spending worldwide in 2016: $1.5 trillion.

Source. Forecast International: Recapping Global Defense Spending for 2017, Eyeing Future Growth, Forecast International, 2018.

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David Morris is co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and currently ILSR's distinguished fellow. His five non-fiction books range from an analysis of Chilean development to the future of electric power to the transformation of cities and neighborhoods.  For 14 years he was a regular columnist for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. His essays on public policy have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Salon, Alternet, Common Dreams, and the Huffington Post.