Mr. Wheeler's book 'The Wastrels of Defense' is now twenty years old, but is still provides marvelous insight into how jacked-up Congress was (and is) insofar as the defense budget is concerned. He worked on the staffs of both Republican (Javits, Kassebaum, Domenici) and Democrat (Pryor) Senators, so he had a close view of how the sausage is made. Well worth a read.
Winslow T. Wheeler, 2004, The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security, Naval Institute Press, 278 pages
Mr. Wheeler's book 'The Wastrels of Defense' is now twenty years old, but is still provides marvelous insight into how jacked-up Congress was (and is) insofar as the defense budget is concerned. He worked on the staffs of both Republican (Javits, Kassebaum, Domenici) and Democrat (Pryor) Senators, so he had a close view of how the sausage is made. Well worth a read.
Winslow T. Wheeler, 2004, The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security, Naval Institute Press, 278 pages
When you design your MIC to mainly enrich existing billionaires, better hope you don't have to fight any actual wars against a peer opponent.