There Is No Secret Plan to Cut Waste at the Defense Department
A U.S. Navy EA-6B Prowler aircraft prepares to launch from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Flickr/Department of Defense
Tom Spoehr
There’s no shortage of waste in the daily operations of the Pentagon. Inefficient, culture-bound business practices, excessive layers of management, redundant capabilities between the military services and the defense bureaucracy—all contribute to excessive waste.
There is nothing new in this observation. Thus, when the Washington Post broke the story about a study supposedly identifying “evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste,” the figure immediately gained credence. The suggestion that a duplicitous Pentagon had “buried” the embarrassing report made the story all the more sensational, the number all the more believable.
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