The Pentagon:the world’s most complicated and most dysfunctional bureaucracy.

By Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer December 4

Chuck Hagel may not have been able to work with the ever more powerful National Security Council staff, but this discussion of personalities misses the point. The key to success for a defense secretary today is the ability to manage not White House aides but rather the Pentagon, which is the world’s most complicated and most dysfunctional bureaucracy. Ashton Carter, the president’s presumed choice as the next secretary, is a brilliant man and perhaps has made some friends at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. But by far the best quality he has going for him is that he seems to understand the need to rein in a Pentagon now so out of control that it is difficult to fully comprehend or explain.

 

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Reining in the Pentagon is not only important to the survival of the U.S. in the short and long term it is also important to the survival of the human race here on earth. 

 

In fact, I would say it is equally important to worry about Putin and the Pentagon if we want the human race to continue without going extinct in the next 300 to 500 years.

 

The problem is the more panicked people on earth get the more out of control the Pentagon will likely get. So, we have the same problem with the Pentagon that we now have with police across the country. We have given both too much unregulated power and both or either (likely both) are destroying our nation and both need to be brought under control or we will lose all that is good about  America forever.