The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
In a two part series (titled “The Defense Budget Is Even Larger than You Think”) at Time magazine’s Battleland blog, I attempt to explain how high spending advocates and even the Department of Defense misuse and manipulate budget data to alter public and congressional perceptions of the contemporary size of DOD spending. The differences between …
Long time financial management reporter Scot Paltrow and his colleague Kelly Carr have written a series, now beginning to appear at Reuters, on the incredible, continuing story of the Pentagon’s gross incompetence in managing its own books. The first two pieces of the series follows. The first article is long, but I urge you to …
This series reveals a political and military system that is sick in its core. This toxic stew of the F-35’s high cost, abetted by concurrent production, lagging performance and continuing design problems, has put U.S. and allied air power into a dive. The dive will steepen so long as F-35 production at the currently-projected rates …
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I recently finished reading Roger Thompson’s Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy’s Status Quo Culture (Naval Institute Press, 2007). I urge those who think we enjoy now and will enjoy in the future some sort of superiority on the seas to read this book. You will find tidbits that you contest, but you will also …
The tired old ideas in SecDef Hagel’s first defense budget make clear that he needs new thinking from his DOD team, or a new team. Pentagon’s budget realities mandate new Defense team By Winslow T. Wheeler – 04/16/13 07:25 PM ET President Obama’s budget for the Department of Defense for 2014 is a strange document. …
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Since the defense budget roll out on Wednesday, April 10, Pentagon budget geeks all over Washington have been popping Ibuprofen trying to unscramble the mess that DOD and OMB have made out of the 2013 and 2014 defense budgets. My take on this dysfunction is explained below. By the way, I don’t blame Secretary Hagel for …
Last week, GAO defended itself, as it should have, at the Foreign Policy website against my criticisms of its latest F-35 report. This week I responded, also at Foreign Policy. In sum, GAO’s retort to my article makes me even more concerned about the state of affairs at GAO than I was before. Find my original article, …
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