“These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries developed their own reconnaissance-strike complexes. And yet it was into these legacy systems that Washington poured billions of dollars, year after year. And because Washington focused on means more than ends, pieces more than networks, platforms more than kill chains, the US military has ended up with an array of sensors and weapons that often struggle to communicate with another and function together--like a box of mismatching puzzle pieces...” TechnologyMisfit Book:The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare Source: The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
“Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition bureaucracy and win more of the shrinking number of contracts.” BureaucracyDefense Contractors Book:The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare Source: The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare