Peter J. Munson explains why defense overspending not only wastes vital national resources but also makes the military weaker:
While [Richard] Rumelt is writing about businesses, the words are all too familiar. "Success leads to laxity and bloat, and these lead to decline. Few organizations avoid this tragic arc." While organizations with few strategic resources are forced to "adroitly coordinate actions in time and across functions," as these organizations gain a strategic advantage, they will "loosen their tight integration and begin to rely more on accumulated resources and less on clever business design. … They will lose the discipline of tight integration, allowing independent fiefdoms to flourish and adding so many products and projects that integration becomes impossible." This last statement is key to understanding DoD today… Directors and staffs of [DoD] agencies are constantly justifying their existence and their pot of money. This, my friends, is the path to hell, decadence, and strategic decline.
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I began filming this after a dozen or so train cars went by on a stretch of track south of Santa Cruz California. Where are the military vehicles going? Why are they being shipped? What could this possibly be for?
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