Time to get tough on the Pentagon’s top ranks
There is no more unreformable bureaucracy in Washington than the Pentagon. There is also no more bureaucracy in need of urgent reform. The problem?
Reforming the Pentagon would tax the acumen and patience of any politician or bureaucrat.
Even the most inside-the-beltway mavens, such as Donald Rumsfeld, who served as secretary of defense twice, have failed to fix the Department of Defense. Rumsfeld made progress toward reform in the early months of George W. Bush’s presidency, only to be sidetracked by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Middle East wars that followed. Just how challenging Pentagon reform is can be demonstrated by the astonishing fact that the DoD has been trying to audit itself for over 30 years, without success. The Pentagon recently delicately announced that its seventh department-wide audit failed to account for where its 2024 budget of $824 billion actually went.
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