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Counting the Pieces: Defense Spending and the “Ever Shrinking Fighting Force”
The Asia Chessboard
Do You Have a Defense Agency?
Mark esper, who just wrote his book, a sacred oath, mark esper tried to take on what he called a fourth of state, the defense agencies. He argues that most of these agencies should be run by civilians that have experts in the commercial sector. These are massive, large business in the defench logistics agency does over forty billion dollars a year with the department of thefence. But while they do a good job, they're not run like a business. If you were a business and you had that much overhead, that's not what we would call in the p and l, billable hours, you got a real problem.
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