Bryan McGrath decries out-of-control defense spending:
There's a conspiracy of silence at work in the Pentagon, an omerta-like code that promotes unity above strategy, duplication above decision, and conformity above economy. When you don't know where you are going, all roads will get you there–and this is the approach to what passes for strategy in the Pentagon.
Lacking in requisite political direction and without the internal tools (or will) to prioritize, DoD lumbers along, occasionally forced to defend its total spending against other discretionary outlays, but never really having to defend how it allocates what it spends internally. Adding to the dysfunction is the sorry state of our political system, in which one party's adult leadership (the Democrats) is terrified to take on DoD for fear of looking weak, and the other party's adult leadership (the Republicans) is unable to apply its flinty aversion to government growth to national security apparatus of the country.
Ricks, who is doing a series on this topic, thinks the bubble will pop in the next ten years. Graph from America's Defense Meltdown.
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