Fire Sale

MRAPs (mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles)      Emma Graham-Harrison

What do you do with all the stuff lying around at the end of your longest war? Since last year, Pentagon contractors have scrapped more than 643 million pounds of equipment. Scrapped it. Vehicles, housing containers, furniture. Afghans, understandably, are both mystified and outraged. "Some of this might be of use in the market and could generate revenue," explains a senior Finance Ministry official. Partly in response to such criticism, the Defense Department, which says it has donated a lot, has taken to selling rather than scrapping ~ and has made $567,000 on items that cost it $4.8 million: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-selling--and-scrapping--equipment-in-afghanistan/2014/08/04/48be12b8-19a7-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html?tid=hpModule_14fd66a0-9199-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239&hpid=z14