It's not outside of civilian control and democratic restraint in the US. It's just an extremely convoluted route from that to the end product. In fact, we'd pr

It's not outside of civilian control and democratic restraint in the US. It's just an extremely convoluted route from that to the end product. In fact, we'd probably get a better deal if there were less so. The amount of money wasted on politically-supported but infeasible/impractical systems is mind boggling.