Similar to the deletion of records from the NED website, I have a feeling this is more about preventing us regular people from finding out about it than other governments.
They want to cover up their foreign policy tracks so we can’t point to the overwhelming evidence of evil shit they get up to and show people how there is no democracy when it comes to foreign policy, only Empire.
Couldn’t you just take the total budget, and subtract all the non-military stuff from it, and get an answer?
Not to mention the fact that the Pentagon lies about where the money is going anyway.
For decades, the DoD’s leaders and accountants have been perpetrating a gigantic, unconstitutional accounting fraud, deliberately cooking the books to mislead the Congress and drive the DoD’s budgets ever higher, regardless of military necessity. DoD has literally been making up numbers in its annual financial reports to Congress—representing trillions of dollars’ worth of seemingly nonexistent transactions—knowing that Congress would rely on those misleading reports when deciding how much money to give the DoD the following year
