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Daniel Driscoll: “If you look at the Pentagon for the last 30 or 40 years…”

Featuring: Daniel Driscoll, Republican | United States Secretary of the Army | National

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US Army Secretary Driscoll: 'We Are Doing the Right Thing'

Published | Video Starts at 04:36

We're spending 1 20th as much on defense as we did in the Korean War. So the needs are growing, the funding is declining. If you look at the Pentagon for the last 30 or 40 years, you've had this very inefficient bureaucratic system that has calcified. And we like to talk about it as kind of like a pretzel for decision making contorting in on itself. (04:36–04:44)

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Asserts that the Pentagon's bureaucratic system has been inefficient for decades.

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