The "Last Supper" that Stoller mentions -- I had heard of it before, and I have never been able to make any sense of it. Why in the hell would the Pentagon advo

The "Last Supper" that Stoller mentions -- I had heard of it before, and I have never been able to make any sense of it. Why in the hell would the Pentagon advocate consolidation among its suppliers, let alone would it pay for the mergers? I want to give benefit of the doubt to the brass here, but I've heard zero plausible arguments for how any of this could have been good for the United States. So what am I looking at? Abject stupidity? Barely-disguised corruption? It's just never made any sense to me. Can anybody steelman the case for this?