The Army is looking to spend as much as $100 million to expand its Special Operations headquarters in northern Afghanistan.
All around Afghanistan, from Kandahar Airfield to the Bagram jail, the U.S. military is on a building spree, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on wartime encampments. By one count, America and its allies now have 700 bases in Afghanistan....
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Special Ops on Building Spree in Afghanistan: $100 million for new HQ
From Noah Shachtman at Wired (h/t iammilitary @ Twitter). It's all really about the money and the profits, isn't it?
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