Thursday, March 26, 2009

 

If we only had a brain


This identifies the key challenge we face in Defense budgeting: we’ve been so used to having growing budgets that the process of making wise strategic choices has atrophied.

Barry Watts, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment and former head of PA and E, said part of the reason the US faces these grim choices — beyond the onerous financial situation — is that the nation has lost the capacity to make clear and effective strategic choices.
The whole article is worth your time.
While we struggle with the immediate challenges before us, we ought to think about how to grow strategic thinkers for the future to rebuild our capacity to make clear and effective strategic choices.

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