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The saga of the littoral combat ships is a vivid illustration of how Congress, the Pentagon and defense contractors can work in concert — and often against the good of the taxpayers and America’s security — to spawn the “military industrial complex.”
Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons never worked. Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.
A ProPublica examination reveals new details on why the LCS never delivered on its promises.
Marines need a little more time outside of the gym? That's what these NCOs say.
The team was publicly ostracized by senior military officials who initially accused the Marines of killing civilians during an ambush in Afghanistan in 2007.