By Paul McLeary and Ariel Robinson
When too much still isn’t enough. Seems that for a brief time, U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan found a new way to fund their wartime projects by pulling cash out of a fund set aside for small reconstruction projects. Unsurprisingly, we have no real idea where that cash went.
Between 2008 and 2014, Congress set aside $3 billion for the Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP) which gave small unit commanders in Afghanistan pretty wide leeway to fund small projects in their areas of operation. In the end, only about $1.7 billion of that was spent in …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
