In today’s The Australia, Greg Sheridan refers to analysis highlighted by Paul Dibb, the eminence grise of Australian national security:
Dibb referred me to figures that show the mind boggling proliferation of “star-ranked” officers in the Australian Defence Force over the past 20 years. It’s nearly doubled from 120 to 219. That’s one star-ranked officer for every 260 other ranks, whereas in the US it’s one to 1526, and in the UK one to 1522.
How about this nugget:
I (Sheridan) pointed out to Dibb the leaked Defence document showing the department was planning to take eight years to evaluate the best type of counter-drone capability to acquire.
8 years to make a decision. Let’s have a meeting. Let’s go on an overseas study tour.
Do not people notice there is a problem here.
If this is the Department of defence, with paralysed decision making and excessive “management” what goes on in other Commonwealth Departments?
We is ruuned? Ruuned.
Venezuela may have better long term prospects than Australia.
There seems to be too many in the upper ranks of every government department for any coherent or rapid decision making. ie: too many chiefs and not enough indians.
Florida looks nice.