An audit says things a program office cannot. GAO reports on major acquisitions have flagged unit cost growth, concurrency risk and unrealistic schedules years before those problems became public, usually in an annex, in careful language, with the agency response printed underneath.
This section covers published institutional work. GAO and inspector general reports, the UK National Audit Office and equivalent bodies, parliamentary and congressional committee findings, and research from RAND, CSIS, IISS, SIPRI, RUSI and comparable institutes.
Reports are covered as reports. The finding is separated from the method that produced it, the agency response is included, and where two institutions reach different conclusions on the same question, the assumptions behind each are what get compared rather than their reputations.
A Navy investigation package released in early December 2025 remains the latest public record on how USS Gettysburg fired Standard Missile-2 rounds at friendly aircraft during USS Harry S. Truman flight operations in the Red Sea on Dec. 22, 2024. The summary
This article explains how the war was fought, looks at key military applications and technological successes and failures, examines the main battles and offensives, Hezbollah’s campaign achievements and how the Israeli military lost the opening battles yet recovered.
