

PENTAGON "LOST TRACK" OF $6 BILLION IN WEAPONS SENT TO ISRAEL - BY WHICH THEY MEAN THEY STOPPED CHECKING
Pentagon Inspector General report just dropped. Out of $13.4 billion in military aid sent to Israel since October 7, 2023, the Department of Defense properly tracked 44%.
Before the Gaza war, tracking was at 69%. Not great, but functional. After October 7, when weapons shipments accelerated and oversight mattered most, tracking collapsed to 44%.
In other words: The Pentagon has no idea where $7.5 billion worth of American weapons actually went.
42 weapons deliveries - totaling over 4 million munitions - completely untracked. No records. No verification. No accountability.
Pentagon's excuse: "staffing shortages and combat conditions."
Staffing shortages. The Department of Defense has an $850 billion annual budget and can't hire enough people to track where billions in weapons go?
Combat conditions. Israel's doing the fighting. U.S. personnel are doing paperwork in air-conditioned offices. What combat conditions are preventing spreadsheet updates?
Here's what "untracked" actually means: The Pentagon doesn't know if weapons went to IDF units as intended, got diverted to settlers, ended up in black markets, or fell into hostile hands.
The report specifically warns that poor oversight "raises the risk of sensitive U.S. weapons technology falling into hostile hands."
That's bureaucratic language for: We have no idea if American tech is being reverse-engineered by adversaries right now.
4 million munitions. Gone. Could be anywhere. The Pentagon shrugs and blames insufficient staff.
Congress approved $13.4 billion. Less than half was tracked. Nobody's been fired. No systems reformed.
This is how oversight dies: acknowledge the problem, blame capacity issues, change nothing, repeat next year.
American taxpayers funded billions in weapons. The Pentagon lost the receipts.
And the official response is "we're all really busy."
Source: Pentagon Inspector General, Defense News, @clashreport
Mike