Operation Depreciation
Pentagon accountants scrounge up an extra $3bn in arms for Ukraine by fixing a bookkeeping error.
Who knew that one of the most potent weapons in the Pentagon’s arsenal might prove to be its accountants’ green visors and pens?
Bookkeeping boffins at the Pentagon have managed to conjure up roughly $3 billion in additional funding for weapons that can be sent to Ukraine and Taiwan without Congressional approval—simply by lowering the estimated value of…