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- Pentagon accounting ‘error’: US taxpayer foots fuel bill for Saudi jets pounding Yemen (VIDEO)
Pentagon accounting errors have led to the US taxpayer footing the bill for years of refueling for Saudi jets bombing Yemen. The oversight makes the US' support for Riyadh's air campaign even more intolerable, an analyst told RT.World News - US needs 35-40k local fighters in Syria, only 20% there now – General Dunford
To "provide stability" in Syria, the US needs to train and equip around 40,000 local fighters, but is only 20 percent of the way to that number right now, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford said.World News - ‘Demonstrating valor from 400km away’: Moscow rebuffs Pentagon’s naval bravado in Sea of Japan
The US Navy bragged that its destroyer came to “challenge” Moscow in the Sea of Japan, but the ship didn’t even come near Russia’s territorial waters and was tracked all the way, the Defense Ministry said.Russia News - 35 F-35s: Pentagon deploys swarm of fighter jets during massive airpower drill (PHOTO, VIDEO)
In a large-scale airpower drill, the Pentagon displayed thirty-five F-35 supersonic stealth fighter planes on a runway, before they jetted into the air with just seconds between takeoffs.USA News - Successful failure: Pentagon admits it never even expected to ‘pass’ multi-million audit
The US Department of Defense spent over $360 million to confirm there are problems in the $2.7 trillion organization, but the Pentagon leadership considers the mere fact that this “first-ever” audit happened was a great success.USA News - War hawks mourn ‘underfunded’ US military that could ‘lose next war’ against Russia or China
Although Washington spends more on its military than the next ten countries combined, a bipartisan commission now warns that the Pentagon needs even more money if the US is to maintain hegemony against threats by Russia and China.USA News
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