Served 22 Army Active Duty and 23 as an Army Civilian, 45 years total, 17 overseas. Retired from the Pentagon and did about a century's worth of five year plans (all of which are just total Bravo Sierra). That adversary aka the "ride the clock" bureaucracy is entrenched and all powerful. My estimate (on the low side) is that 50% of the Pentagon could go away and no one would know the difference. Just one example is US Army IMCOM command. Created to centralize installation management away from individual Major Commands. It did not take away MACOM oversight and in fact IMCOM IS NOW UNDER A MACOM! Typical! Alpha Alpha Tango Whiskey!🇺🇸

I just left a meeting with 10+ high level defense engineers and spent 45 min. agreeing that what was stated before the meeting was correct. No one, absolutely no one, in the meeting argued against the request. The entire 7+ man hours, $1,200+ was spent on how to get the paperwork done to meet DOD requirements. 😩😩😩

Basically Hegseth wants Congress to give him the country’s credit card so he can buy whatever he wants and hide the statements so we can’t see what he buys or for how much. Hmmm 🤔

Imagine not having any sort of structure around managing a nearly $1 trillion dollar budget - the chaos that would cause. The pentagon may very well be the only institution in government that thinks somewhat long-term. POTUS and Congress just do whatever the F they want now and to heck with downstream consequences. That being said, I'm aware that there's a dark side to heavy beuracracy as well, such as not being able to account for trillions of dollars spent over the years by the military. Nobody knows where it all goes - that money seems to have found the tiny holes in all that beuracracy and trickled out.

Finally someone in authority who sees the soviet "5 Year Plan" and FYDP parallel.

I thought for sure he was going to talk about Mossad and the current government of Israel. Quite of few people do believe they run the Pentagon too so perhaps he is talking about them.

...whilst you're at it, maybe look at (or have @DOGE look at) MIC margins, please. I wouldn't be surprised if their bribe moneys are factored in...

Start by firing all the GO’s, SES’s, and +GS-13’s from the previous administrations.

This is the leadership we need!

I can relate to this. Worked on a cost+ fixed fee contract 25 years ago and was provided with wire cut to exact finished length without the extra 1/2" to strip and install this wire. I informed command to provide me a spool of uncut wire and charge the government what I used. They did not listen and sent me more too short wire. This happened 3 times. While this was happening a number of people were waiting on my build to perform an expensive test. The bureaucracy lasted for 2 months before I was able to get the proper wire. To add insult to injury I had to create a scrap ticket for each piece of wire. My time charged labor for this exceeded $5000 Unknown as to the cost of delaying the program. All for maybe 2 feet of 28 gauge wire at about $0.05 per foot. @SecWar can DM me for program details.

fast evolving ukraine situation basically makes DLA obsolete

“The Mossad runs the Pentagon”- Former Sec. Def. Donald Rumsfeld 2002

Sexiest man alive right there 🥵

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Very sensible.

100%. What a time to be alive. Restructure the entire pentagon and replace the bureaucratic bloat

Fire them all!!! WTFAYWF????

Whoa, the fur is flying now... This is an important fight and very timely.

It's preventing us from finishing the campaigns in Iran, Venezuela, and Afghanistan.

Wow.

aka the deep state

The term 'hidebound' comes to mind. Also 'ossified'. Not all of them, but some. The entire battlespace is changing every day. And we have to be nimble enough to make needed adjustment if we are to retain our lofty perch. Further, China is cranking out 1000 missile engines a day. Even if we are the top-of-the-line. They can bury our systems with enough quantity. And that appears to be what they are going for in missiles. Further, the quantity of drones their software can handle is impressive. The enormous displays they can field tells of a fine degree of control of massive numbers of units. The War in Ukraine is a testing ground for the latest battle-drone software. Super Rapid fire deck-guns should be able to take care of a super-swarm of mini-drones, especially if they are firing shotgun shells. And all drones should have an alternate method of sending and receiving information other than radio waves, because that will be the first thing that is jammed. And AI is warming up in the bullpen. My point is that our command staff has to be as flexible as our ability to develop what we need in short order, and have it produced at speed. So, we might need to look at ways to produce our wonder weapons at greater quantities and in a shorter time-frame. Which means the military might need to get into the armaments production business, because there's no way a business based on the capitalist system can have that amount of production potential sitting idle. So some of the people attached to the military might have to be skilled at mass production as well. We are not always at war. But we have to be ready when one is looming or we are.

Um...sort of...

SES 👏🏻

So, fix it.

There is no greater threat to or ongoing action against the US Constitution than the DoJ, especially in blue states.

Shot across the bow 💥

Dump MacNamara. Re-Empower the uniform wearing guys...Why was the uniformed wearing Army Ordnance Corps almost completely erased from Weapons acquisition?

Make SOPs Great Again! 💪💪💪🇺🇸

You know what he means. That Modernization efforts should not Just apply to purchasing new weapons and defensive capabilities, but that modernization efforts should also focus on the Pentagon’s dogged adherence to the outdated bloated acquisition and planning processes, and the inflated costs of multi-competitor requirements and other similar policies, influenced by lobbyists and contractors. Prioritizing inefficient processes prevents timely positive warfighting acquisitions and capabilities getting to the field. Redirecting focus is not new. Reference his Sept speech about zero-defect leadership and other social distractions within the military not focused on war fighting - taken negatively by those supporting entrenchment by lambasting and comparing his inexperience in the entrenched bloated processes others rely on for guaranteed follow-on employment. Rumsfeld’s 2001 speech had the same message. A positive recent example being Ukraine’s fielding effective Drones missiles.

anyone that doesn't think anything is happening, start here.

PENTAGON PLANNING PLAGUE: TRUMP'S WAR ON BUREAUCRATIC BOLSHEVIKS—DRAIN THE DEEP STATE DEN! 🦅⚖️ @SECWAR nails the nightmare: Five-year fiat from Foggy Bottom tyrants throttling troops & taxpayers—brutal central command crushing combat readiness! Closer than commies? It's the swamp's Soviet sibling; Trump's the liberator launching the purge! “For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light…” — Luke 8:17 (God's spotlight on the shadows—Trump's the torchbearer!) Moral freedom unleashes warriors—strength through merit, not mandates. Who's cheering the bureaucracy bust? SWAMP SICK? REPLY 'DRAIN PENTAGON' & DEMAND! #MAGA #MoralFreedom #Trump2024 #AmericaFirst #DrainTheSwamp

Socialism sucks.

FUCK THE DEEP STATE END IT NOW .