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  • 20/01/2025

    How hard is it to run the Pentagon? (from the Economist)

    “The department [of Defense] employs around 700,000 civilians, around a third of the federal civilian workforce. It contains multitudes: in 2015 it transpired that the Pentagon had spent $84m—more than the defence budget of some small countries—on erectile-dysfunction drugs.”