I have a pretty strong constitution. Blood and guts, snakes and bugs, human suffering, ABBA - none of these things get to me. But when I saw this grotesque abortion of bureaucracy, I actually recoiled in horror.
This unholy clusterfuck of a powerpoint slide is the “process” the military uses for choosing new equipment. Is it any wonder we end up pissing away more than half our federal budget on the armed forces and still can’t manage to beat a couple hundred jackasses living in caves?
That chart isn’t just unnecessarily convoluted, it’s deliberately convoluted. The only way a process gets to that point is if you’re trying to waste as much resources as possible while accomplishing as little possible. I shudder to think of the man-hours (not to mention tax dollars) spent on just coming up with the process, let alone the hundreds (thousands?) of paper-pushers required to actually follow it for every single piece of equipment used by the military. And this is just one small aspect of the massive armed forces bureaucracy. Can you imagine the process for the rest of it?
