"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Monday, May 10, 2010

Rumsfield was right

Those paying attention have seen this coming for a long time.
The era of gold plating and top-heavy "management" has to come to an end.

Gates Takes Aim at Pentagon Spending - NYTimes.com:

"In the speech, given on the 65th anniversary of the World War II victory in Europe, Mr. Gates said the Pentagon was wasting money it will no longer get, and he focused on targets as diverse as the cost of military health care, the large number of generals and admirals and the layers of bureaucracy involved just to send a dog team to Afghanistan."

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