I feel strongly that if a president were to challenge the Pentagon to be better instead of bigger, more effective instead of more expensive, he would find a receptive audience both with the public—which, I think, senses how far out of control the Pentagon is—and within the military itself.
department of defense
Posted inSeptember 1982
Sam Nunn: Can He Escape the Respectability Trap?
From time to time the political landscape shifts in such a way that an aperture flicks open, revealing with some certainty which issues will dominate the decades ahead, and which people will dominate those issues. One of the issues, of course, is national defense, a subject that relates not only to national security, but to […]
