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When a major goal is to overhaul the moribund inefficient Pentagon procurement processes, necessary to rebuild our military, then the simpatico arrangement between the Generals and Defense contractors must be degraded. Breaking those bonds necessarily requires a degree of "out with the old".
But is that what these steps are actually structured to do? I mean, there's a reason why your initial take on this wasn't about efficiency or how the Pentagon sources its equipment, but rather went straight to DEI and Covid and woke.
Pete Hegseth isn't a procurement guy, or an efficiency guy - he has no experience in purchasing or contracting or procurement or anything like that. He's an anti-woke guy. He's a Trump loyalist. He's a push back on DEI guy. His skillset isn't a good fit for the policy that you're saying is the one that is behind this. But it is a perfect fit for the more pernicious goal of a punitive purge of people who are perfectly qualified but just insufficiently on Trump's "team."
To say nothing of the fact that only a small portion of the Pentagon brass has any involvement, even indirectly, in procurement and contracting. That's a specific division of Defense. If these efforts were directed at that group, then perhaps this might be more credible. But a "whole of military" purge of 3- and 4-star generals?
I don't know, BHM. There's not a lot to indicate that this is actually about procurement processes, rather than something that you should be a little more concerned about....
