President-elect Trump faces the daunting task of reforming the Pentagon, a behemoth plagued by inefficiency and a culture that prioritizes political correctness over military effectiveness. The article highlights the challenges Trump's incoming administration will face, including a struggling military, a broken procurement system, and the need to purge the Pentagon of what the author sees as detrimental diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Reforming the Pentagon would tax the acumen and patience of any politician or bureaucrat. Even the most inside-the-beltway mavens, such as Donald Rumsfeld, who served as secretary of defense twice, have failed to fix the Department of Defense. Rumsfeld made progress toward reform in the early months of George W. Bush’s presidency, only to be sidetracked by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Middle East wars that followed.
Just how challenging Pentagon reform is can be demonstrated by the astonishing fact that the DoD has been trying to audit itself for over 30 years, without success. The Pentagon recently delicately that its seventh department-wide audit failed to account for where its 2024 budget of $824 billion actually went.Still, President-elect Donald Trump must start the task. First off, he must confront the painful fact that the U.S. military has failed. That failure is demonstrated by two decades of losing wars in the Middle East. The challenge is that of one of the top DoD leaders who preferred playing politics over winning wars and one of a defense procurement, production, and repair system, particularly for the Navy, that’s simply broken. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice as Pentagon chief, is more a Fox News pundit than a defense intellectual. However, Hegseth’s pugnacious style, which Trump admires, offers an effective vehicle for ruthlessly dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion programs inside the DoD. Trump’s appointment of brainy defense wonks such as Elbridge Colby to head Pentagon policy bodes well. It means that Hegseth can devote himself to purging the U.S. military of the DEI toxins that have infected it since the Obama years. At the same time, the nuts and bolts of defense policy work can advance successfully. Yet, the Pentagon’s problem is bigger than DEI alone. There’s plenty of talent inside the Pentagon, but there’s also a lot of dead woo
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