[Vision2020] A Thought to Ponder

[Wayne Price]

Ted,

What I would say is that the "Department of Defense" doesn't work. All  
it did was add an extra layer of bureaucracy and has done nothing to  
increase efficiency or add to victory, what ever that is in this day  
and age.
Since the DoD was created, name a war the US was victorious in. While  
I believe in civilian control over the military, the DoD has gone too  
far and it tends to go too much into the sphere of responsibilities of  
the uniformed officer corps without using the established military  
chain of command. They have all the authority with none of the  
responsibility, and they are not subject to the Uniform Code of  
Military Justice as they are not in the military.

And the DoD, for the most part, has become a dumping pot for patronage  
positions, most filled by political hacks or incompetent former  
military officers that couldn't hack it in uniform so they then come  
back in a suit!
I worked for one Brigadier General that was passed over for promotion  
even though the General he worked for was the President of the  
Promotion Board - TWICE.
He then wiggled himself a position as a deputy assistant secretary of   
defense, and could then really (and did) screw things up! He was so  
"beloved" by not only his enlisted soldiers but also by the officers  
that worked under him that we were ordered, in writing to attend his  
retirement party! Otherwise no one would have been there!  In the  
words of one of the older soldiers from Alabama, "That boy couldn't  
lead soldiers to free liquor and loose women"!
And yes, he was one of the strong advocates of  using contractors/ 
mercenaries, and you see how successful that has been!









On Sep 16, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Kai Eiselein  
> <editor at lataheagle.com> wrote:
> Highly centralized government programs do not work.
>
> This statement implies you think that the Pentagon, the US Marines,  
> Army, Navy and Air force,
> "do not work."
>
> I am amazed again and again that the critics of government run  
> programs rarely attack the US military when they make their  
> arguments against these programs, yet the arguments they use apply  
> just as well to the government run US armed forces.
>
> Perhaps the US armed forces should be completely privatized?
>
> Ted Moffett
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