"I don't want the military failing hard and failing fast. Make it work, make it work well, and then don't mess with it." This presumes the mission, terrain, an

"I don't want the military failing hard and failing fast. Make it work, make it work well, and then don't mess with it." This presumes the mission, terrain, and enemy remains static, which has really never been the case. What worked in WW2 isn't often going to be effective for today's problems. Sure there are jobs that are nearly eternal, from which we should pick proven designs, doctrines. But especially in wartime, a "fail fast, fail cheap, and learn quickly" is exactly what I would want in a military to complement the decades of bureaucratic planning that preceded in peacetime.