Risk aversion and secrecy are costing US its military advantage, No. 2 general says

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Risk aversion and secrecy are costing US its military advantage, No. 2 general says
By Meghann Myers
 Oct 28, 12:21 PM
 

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is about to retire after four decades in uniform, and the Defense Department is still trying to solve some of the problems it was trying to tackle when he first put on his second lieutenant bar.

Hyten is due to relinquish responsibility on Nov. 21, then officially retire, though President Joe Biden has not yet nominated a replacement. Like many before him, he laments the Pentagon’s deeply entrenched bureaucracy, he told reporters at a Defense Writers Group event on Thursday.

“After 40 years, I didn’t replace [the Space Defense Operations Center],” he said, despite tours as the head of Space Command and Strategic Command. “I worked on SPADOC the first time in 1986... that’s not a current weapon system. And there’s been better ways to do that mission for decades.”

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/10/28/risk-aversion-and-secrecy-are-costing-us-its-military-advantage-no-2-general-says/

[sneakypete]

You don't have to be a psychic to understand that THE Number One  job of a bureaucracy is to protect itself and expand.

Accomplishing what it was created to do will ALWAYS come in a distant second.