Santa Claus Is Coming to the Pentagon

Where's Krampus When You Need Him?

by | Dec 22, 2025 | News | 0 comments

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row. It hasn’t won a major war since 1945. Money and assets that are missing or otherwise unaccounted for measure in the trillions of dollars. This year’s Pentagon budget is roughly another trillion dollars. The cost of new nuclear weapons and the so-called golden dome defense system will likely exceed $2 trillion. No matter how naughty and wasteful the Pentagon is, it’s always getting more money from Santa Claus. What gives?

It’s time for Krampus to come to the Pentagon. Krampus is the half-goat, half-demon that punishes naughty boys and girls.

Come, Krampus, come! There are greedy naughty spoiled boys and girls at the Pentagon and within the MICIMATT(SH)* that deserve a bit of punishment.

But I sense even Krampus is cowed by the Complex.

*military industrial congressional intelligence media academe think tank (sports and Hollywood) complex. Too scary for Krampus.

William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), professor of history, and a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), an organization of critical veteran military and national security professionals. His personal substack is Bracing Views.

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