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Knowing what I do about bureaucracies, the organizational problem it solved was more strategic than just that. To be agile enough to respond to space and cyber,
by motohagiography 4y ago
Knowing what I do about bureaucracies, the organizational problem it solved was more strategic than just that. To be agile enough to respond to space and cyber, the Executive branch needed something (like a startup) growing and changing and above all, adapting fast.
That administration was persuaded that the only way to counter China was to become more adaptable above all other things, and nobody in the military was doing it fast enough to meet this crititcal need - so they did what they knew worked, and he created a new competitor for all their budgets, and also made it the place that had to solve security in the biggest problem on the horizon, space.
I'd say to other orgs (to adapt an adage) that if you think space force was a solution without a problem, the problem may have been you. ;)
- jcranmer 4y agoAs I understand it, the primary organizational problem that the Space Force is solving is that there was no way to become a general if you were interested in space stuff, much in the same way that you're not going to make general if you were, say, a logistics officer. Or, transplanting it to business terms, this is like creating a department of paper clips so that someone can now become a senior VP in charge of paper clips.
- brutusborn 4y agoIs there any evidence to support this idea, or are you just spitballing?
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoI'll take that job. Those nuggets get everywhere, checking if it looks like people are writing a letter, they probably have an Intelligence function second to none in any major business. Plus they come in lots of different colours now. I could rock that