from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 29 Dec 2025 00:04
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52420262
Pentagon’s Inspector General released a detailed report earlier this month revealing the U.S. Department of Defense improperly tracked most weapons and military equipment Americans supplied to the IDF after Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 affecting a significant portion of weapons delivered under $13.4 billion in military aid.
According to Defense News, while the Pentagon maintained records for 69% of defense products requiring enhanced monitoring delivered to Israel before the war, afterward that figure dropped to just 44%.
Two main reasons are cited: first, staff shortages; second, changes in the operational environment in Israel. In other words, the IDF was consuming American-supplied weapons so rapidly that Americans simply couldn’t keep up with documentation.
The Inspector General’s report states that from October 2023 to April 2024, Americans failed to track delivery of over 4 million munitions across 42 shipments because most equipment had already been engaged in Israel’s extended military operations.
The report emphasizes that the U.S. faced identical tracking problems with supplied weapons in Iraq from 2013 to 2017, and apparently no conclusions or mechanisms to solve this problem were developed.
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Color me surprised.
Have they checked Gaza’s schools and hospitals?
I suppose that there are not much left of these to check by now. And also this situation looks like someone intentionally messed up with documentation, since we are talking about weapons, not potatoes. These types of cargo are being monitored very good.
Yeah, my point is that they’ve all been dropped on civilians in Palestine. There’s no great mystery where they ended up. The U.S. provided the arms for the genocide.
Not new, they misplaced $7B in cash in Iraq. That’s pallets of cash.