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Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> writes:
> Some eyebrows will be raised if this tries to bypass the purchasing
> bureaucracy
>
> Not that this is a bad thing, Beltway Bandits are not a Good Thing for
> anyone but themselves and their lobbyists.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#69 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#71 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers

some latest on acquisition:

DoD Restructures Acquisition, Technology Office to Improve Military
Lethality, Speed
https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1265231/dod-restructures-acquisition-technology-office-to-improve-military-lethality-sp/
This is the Pentagon's new acquisition structure
https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2017/08/02/this-is-the-pentagons-new-acquisition-structure/
New Pentagon report changes DOD acquisition and tech approach
https://defensesystems.com/articles/2017/08/08/dod-acquisition.aspx

but there is always the suspicion that it is just another gimmick by MIC
to extract more money. There is the whole thing about Iraq2 was just
money for MIC. corporate representatives approach former eastern bloc
countries and tell them if they vote for invasion of iraq in the UN,
they will get approval to join NATO and directed appropriation USAID
(that can only be used for buying modern arms from US
military-industrial complex).
http://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/

original justification for IRAQ2 was Iraq supported Al-Queda and it
would only cost $50B. Then changed to (non-existant) WMDs ... although
they did find decommissioned WMDs (tracing back to US in Iran/Iraq war)
early in the invasion ... but that information was kept classified for
decade.

Since then GAO reported that there was $60B in pallets of shrink wrapped
$100 bills airlifted to Iraq that there is no real accounting for (some
used to pay bribes and tribute to reduce violence during the surge).
Also Iraq no-bid contracts involving tens (hundreds?)  of billions. Two
wars over $5T (with long-term benefits) and "forever wars" continuing

John Boyd's Art of War; Why our greatest military theorist only made colonel.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/

Here too Boyd had a favorite line. He often said, 'It is not true the
Pentagon has no strategy. It has a strategy, and once you understand
what that strategy is, everything the Pentagon does makes sense. The
strategy is, don't interrupt the money flow, add to it.'

... snip ...

WMD posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
perpetual war posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Boyd posts & URLs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html

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