Ryan Faith, VICE News: US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter Wants to Fix Everything Wrong With the Pentagon
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is racing against the clock to push some pretty far-reaching reforms in the Department of Defense.
On the one hand, fundamental structural changes in the world's most expensive military are important, and ripples from these changes will be felt for years and decades to come. On the other hand, this stuff is boring as hell. But in Washington, it turns out that being boring is one of the best forms of camouflage available.
Carter has found himself in a bit of a bind, in terms of his job. Sure, he's qualified, interested, and enthusiastic; people have said he's "genetically engineered to be defense secretary." But he came in late and has very little time on the clock before a new administration takes over.
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WNU Editor: President Obama has been in office for almost 8 years .... and the rush to fix the Pentagon is on now?!?!? As to what should be done .... the first thing should be this .... We need to audit the Pentagon (The Hill).
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The biggest problem is the Commander in Chief.
"President Obama has been in office for almost 8 years .... and the rush to fix the Pentagon is on now?!?!? "
This is only a PR game for the president's legacy. Ash Carter will prostitute his good name to aid Obama. He has sold his soul.
"he biggest problem is the Commander in Chief."
Yup!
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176126/tomgram%3A_william_hartung%2C_what_a_waste%2C_the_u.s._military/#more
"From spending $150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in Afghanistan to blowing $2.7 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesn’t work, the latest revelations of waste at the Pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades. Other hot-off-the-presses examples would include the Army’s purchase of helicopter gears worth $500 each for $8,000 each and the accumulation of billions of dollars' worth of weapons components that will never be used. And then there’s the one that would have to be everyone’s favorite Pentagon waste story: the spending of $50,000 to investigate the bomb-detecting capabilities of African elephants. (And here’s a shock: they didn’t turn out to be that great!) The elephant research, of course, represents chump change in the Pentagon’s wastage sweepstakes and in the context of its $600-billion-plus budget, but think of it as indicative of the absurd lengths the Department of Defense will go to when what’s at stake is throwing away taxpayer dollars."
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