Pentagon Admits Iran War Cost $33.4B, Drained US Munitions

Watchdog:Pentagon Admits Iran War Cost $33.4B, Drained U.S.US Munitions

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Pentagon Admits Iran War Cost $33.4B, Drained US Munitions

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Above: U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on Sept. 11. Image credit: Annabelle Gordon/UPI/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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A war nobody in Congress ever funded has already run up $33.4 billion, withincluding $22.3 billion ofloss that in munitions the industrial base simply cannot rebuild. Eighteen dead, hundreds wounded, aircraft lost to friendly fire, bases wrecked across eight countries and not one completed oversight report to show for it. Seven months of firepower spent on a target set built to absorb exactly this kind of massive pounding.

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American factories are running around the clock,; new plants are going up, and Patriots, THAADs, and Tomahawks are rolling off the lines and shipping to forces in the Middle East. The Pentagon is already pushing industry to compress years-long development cycles into aggressive delivery schedules, because rebuilding the defense industrial base was the plan long before this conflict started. StockpilesWhen stockpiles get replenished;, deterrence gets restored.