Secret Military Spending: The US Is Doing It

According to the United States Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2012, of the nearly $3.8 trillion to be spent, nearly a full quarter of it (24%) is assigned to the broad category of Defense. Much is made of the Pentagon’s budget in terms of aggregate dollars (and it’s a big number), but the truth about military spending is that many of the expenditures are used in operations deemed in the interest of national security. As such, these unknown military programs and international espionage initiative