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The Trump admin just admitted to a massive $28 billion military failure
What happened
AlterNet reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a Wednesday address at Quantico to announce an Autonomous Warfare Command and Project Meridian, a 120-day study of future warfare led by Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey. The headline’s supposed “admission” was Hegseth’s acknowledgment that inexpensive, mass-produced weapons can threaten costly military platforms—not an explicit admission that the Pentagon suffered a $28 billion failure.
The article says the United States expended $28.1 billion in sophisticated weapons during conflict with…
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