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The last time the Government Accountability Office added up how much the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies were spending building police forces around the world was in 1990. The U.S. government spent $180 million that year. In a new report out today, that total has jumped to $3.5 billion, a nearly 2,000% hike.
Hard to believe, but Battleland began covering this terrible story 25 years ago today:
The quiet coalition has come together to reverse the decline of the opposition rebel forces in Syria, according to this nice front-pager in Wednesday’s Washington Post. Much like in the case of Libya, the Obama Administration is hanging back and letting the local “market” determine his military response. He simply refuses to take the strategic lead, which is frustrating to many and yet decidedly clever on his part.
