They are violating America's unstated rules by doing so, expect them to have few friends.
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Liberalism, Libertarianism, Protestant Christianity, Social Justice, Scientism, Neoconservatism...
How?
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Libertarians will be quite happy to work as start up entrepreneurs and individuals contractors. Liberals as CEOs and academic administrators. Protestants as marketers.
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So when an American businessman tries to make the Pentagon more efficient they breach this compartmentalization.
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1. Makes it harder for the managerial class to maintain complicit ignorance of what those goals are.
2. It messes with the defense patronage structure: The inefficiency is the point.
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I want a future where we rename the DoD the Department of Logistics. 😆👌
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Yet, despite such exorbitant expenditures US fleets are ageing and only a small fraction of the paper air-force is ready for use.
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This delegation arguably fit past governments with lower state capacity quite well.
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I'm reminded of Russia's Wagner Group.
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