Comments on: The Pentagon builds its budgets in five-year plans, much as the Soviet Union once did

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:04:57 +0000

>Military servicemembers are only in a given job for a few years before they rotate to another one.

The specter of atomism wreaks perfidy in all aspects of society.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:12:59 +0000

I have yet to see a proposal for, say, just stuffing ten big supply ships with a quarter million drones apiece and having them drive in circles near trouble spots. But if the Air Force Academy has been sending half its grads to drones for twenty years, as the ringknockers do their twenty there’s got to be some institutional clout behind that sort of thing.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:46:30 +0000

Gavin,

It’s that simple for Social Security and Medicare and debt service. That is budget policy. They are automatic. They can’t be touched. Put the baseline military budget of 15% in the same status.

That’s why the military is in the “discretionary” 1/3 of the budget and why it must compete with the other priorities like fake solar panels.

As for your quest for focus and great things, you really shouldn’t look at government…

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:32:42 +0000

VXXC: “The answer is for the DOD to get budgeted automatically …”

It is probably not as simple as that. The underlying issue is one that affects a lot more than the military, and even a lot more than the Federal Behemoth — bureaucrazy!

It seems that any organization which starts out with a clear focus and achieves great things eventually gets lost in its own importance. NASA is a clear example today. Some have suggested that the solution would be to terminate any organization after a certain number of years — say, 20 years — and then rebuild a new organization from the grass roots. But it is tough to see how that could be done for the military and its supply chains.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 14:15:44 +0000

Then budget properly, DC style.

The answer is for the DOD to get budgeted automatically as Social Security, Medicare, and Debt Service are budgeted. It’s automatic, and Congress can’t touch the above. Here’s your 15% of the budget; now manage it, and we’ll do oversight. ;)

Guns should at least have the same level of good governance as butter.

This would stop or greatly mitigate the mischief described above. It would also put all the Broses out of a job, or at least most of them, and ease the pain on the eyes and ears of those of us who put the work in.