Comments on: Reflections on 9/11/2001 and Secretary Rumsfeld’s warning http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/reflections-on-9112001-and-secretary-rumsfelds-warning/ A blog dedicated to defense issues Mon, 20 May 2013 17:43:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: zbigniewmazurak http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/reflections-on-9112001-and-secretary-rumsfelds-warning/#comment-7755 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:13:00 +0000 http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/?p=4993#comment-7755 The military’s bureaucracy is not nearly big enough to pay for even the first tier BCA-mandated budget cuts, let alone for sequestration.

Even halving the number of admirals would save only a few hundred million dollars per year – a fraction of one billion dollars.

Be that as it may, I’ve already proposed far-reaching DOD reform proposals on this and many other issues here:

http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/

]]> By: jwpegler http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/reflections-on-9112001-and-secretary-rumsfelds-warning/#comment-7679 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:53:58 +0000 http://zbigniewmazurak.wordpress.com/?p=4993#comment-7679 The least safe world that I can imagine features a bankrupted America, deeply indebted to China, Saudi Arabia, and other countries that hate us.

Unfortunately, this is the path that George Bush put us on and that Barack Obama has made worse.

The fact is that the military is a big, bloated government bureaucracy, just like every other government agency. Case in point: In the Navy, a Captain commands a ship and an Admiral commands a fleet of ships. Yet, today there are more Admirals than ships. What are all of these high priced Admirals doing? Shuffling papers at the Pentagon. Larding up the military with multiple layers of bureaucracy does not make us more secure. It hurts our security.

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