A Wired article details how the US Army has spent $200 billion (yes, ‘b’) on a “modernization” plan that they’re probably going to scrap. The plan called for basically having a wirelessly controlled fleet of combat vehicles that all ran on a shared operating system. These are other war-related things this money could have funded:

At $200 billion, Future Combat Systems is already the biggest modernization program in the history of the Army — enough, approximately, to buy 200,000 of the new, heavily-armored vehicles bound for Iraq (more than 20 times the number slated to go); 1,000 of the Air Force’s latest, most expensive stealth fighter (about 50 times more than planned); or 25 next-generation aircraft carriers, (more than double the current fleet).

Hasn’t turned your stomach, yet? They want to throw another $20 billion at the program to see if they can salvage it, which most everyone acknowledges they cannot.

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