Since I know the best-selling author of The Plan has a real gripe with defence spending, I wonder how he would suggest spending should be done in a smaller government?
Do you do away with MOD procurement entirely, and let the military build their own logistics wing into a unit that can do it all, or what?
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"co-author of reasonable-seller The Plan" actually.
"Do you do away with MOD procurement entirely, and let the military build their own logistics wing into a unit that can do it all, or what? "
Then you really would have the Lunatics running the Asylum - the main reason why the upper class, slope shouldered chinless wonders who take up so many of the Commissions in the Forces are there, is because they are fucking incapable of doing anything else! Imagine those clowns let loose with a budget.
Fidel, I suggest you go and spend a couple of weeks with the useless chinless wonders - say in Afghanistan.
You don't have a clue about today's army do you? Obviously not.
But it's the same chinless wonders who are keeping you safe enough to be able to sit at your keyboard and not out fighting with your water pistol.
No, it isn't actually - it's the ordinary Soldiers on the front line. They are the ones who suffer most from the chinless wonders' cock ups.
I think Fidel was referring to the staff officer class, who have been of somewhat dubious quality of late - and have been far too keen to tow the political line, normally until safely retired, whereupon they suddenly become the squaddies' best friend. *cough*mikejackson*cough*
Oh and even if they were all serving in the sandpit, being able to shoot people != being able to spend money responsibly.
Any procurement wing of the armed forces would be functionally the same as MOD procurement with almost certainly the same people, albeit in uniform, and with the additional monstrous costs to set up.
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