The Pentagon has now fucked up two wars in a row and wasted trillions with no career consequences for failure, and not even much Congressional interest in what went wrong. The same pattern extends to prohibitively costly dead-end weapons programs. There's no way to fail at DoD
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In the wars America won, a recurring pattern was early and aggressive demotion of incompetent high command, as well as thorough Congressional oversight. But somehow after Korea the military got so good at staffing that no one needs to be fired or second-guessed anymore
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The fact that the Pentagon either lied to itself or lied to Congress for twenty years deserves more attention from our legislators (who just sent themselves on vacation)
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To put it another way, we could have given the Taliban billions of dollars and a fleet of American military hardware in October 2001 to get the same outcome we bought with 20 years of war. This is not a time to close ranks and heal, but a time to investigate the hell out of DoD
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Being destined to become a redundant, irreversible money pit was WHY I "made fun" of it. People I know said I was being too serious.
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