the Daily Whale - 31 January 1992

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How did the U.S. military procurement system come to be such a disaster? In the 1950’s it was not so bad, but there was room for improvement. It was fixed, but there was still room for improvement, so it was fixed again, and so on down to today.

Any system will break down if you repair it enough.

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