The Things They Carried

hyperbole

Why did the author used this hyperbole from the things they carried the spent six trillion dollars on firepower"(72)?
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O'Brien is saying that the "brass" or high ranking colonels spend so much money on firepower yet they don't have a clue what really goes on in the battlefield.

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