Volume XX No.32: August 7, 2015
The House of Representatives put Capitol Hill in its rearview mirror last week. The Senate is sputtering to a stop this week, and soon the August doldrums will overtake the Capitol. Traffic will be lighter and people talk about what books to read at the beach as much as they talk about world affairs. This lazy pace started us thinking of the lazy budget habits the Department of Defense (DOD) has gotten into after more than a decade of war. Not that the Pentagon is entirely to blame, many of these habits have been forced on them by the Congress. And like that old Chicago song, they are a \”Hard Habit to Break.\”
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