For the sustainable defense of the United States of America this needs to be fixed. Only true accountability & transparency will allow for a durable self-sustaining ratio of societal resource usage by those commissioned with protecting society. For the first time this is possible in the most transparent & accountable methods; blockchain. Who is accountable to who? Simply ask, who gives who authority? Who is supposed to be serving who? Then it’s simple. There will be an allowance, a measure of forgiveness for those who have erred, depending on their actions, their culpability, their level of potential retribution had they resisted, their cooperation now, and repentance now. Resistance is futile. There already exists a trove of records that a forensic analysis will quickly uncover enough evidence to change the current unaccountable Better to roll peacefully with the peacemakers now, than wait for the extremist who will want the guillotine.

The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that’s larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Department’s continuing difficulty in balancing its books.