The contracting and procurement system, nominally designed to protect
the public interest, has been utterly corrupted. Pentagon officers cannot
wait for early retirement, at which point they get hired by defense firms.
In 1969, over two thousand retired officers were employed by the top 100
contractors -- triple the number when Eisenhower made his farewell speech.
The laws against conflicts of interest are toothless, and there is enough
money at stake to make sure they stay that way. Cost overruns, along
with zero accountability for weapons that don't work, are built into the
system with a wink and a nod, if not in writing. If Vietnam had not been
conveniently available to prime the procurement pump, it's probable that
some other war would have been invented to take its place.
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