Governmental Security Bloat
Chester at TCS outlines the shift of the federal government to becoming a DoD+bureaucracy system.
If it’s true that the presidential attention span will be concerned primarily with security for the foreseeable future – say ten or fifteen more years – this does not bode well for those who are most eager for large-scale domestic reforms. It might even augur an age of diminished capabilities for the federal government.
His ends with –
Simplification of the government’s role in life might make it easier for it to more effectively accomplish its remaining core competencies: those largely related to security.
The solution is a lean platform of governance that provides security without revolving around the military. Not a tone downed version of the current nation state with a focus on security. That would be too much wasted time and money on a legacy system.
-Shlok
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