Era?

Stay awake if you can and read this.

Strategy or pretend strategy. It is hard to tell. Sorry to judge without reading the book. Or, is it must-read? Surprise? Cliff-hanger ending? If someone buys it, let me know if it is worth making a movie.

This from 2013 will help to show just a few of many problems when trying to fix what ails Defence.

The civilian workforce has grown by 26 per cent in the past decade or so and, across the same period, the number of civilian senior executives has increased by 63 per cent (and military star rank officers by 58 per cent). Personnel costs now account for more than 42 per cent of the defence budget, whereas the amount of money spent on military equipment is scarcely 22 per cent.

This serious imbalance must be corrected as a matter of urgency if we are to have a credibly equipped defence force.

More reading:

-New Defence White Paper fails to address Australia's core security needs
-2009 Defence White Paper Fantasy
-Analysing "The ADF Air Combat Capability- On the Record"
-Find out who is responsible for the Air Warfare Destroyer mess
-Analysis of Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Management and What Needs to be Fixed
-New DMO Boss warns the staff that business as usual is over
-How dangerous is the Defence Material Organisation to our Defence Industry?
-Australia's Failing Defence Structure and Management Methodology
-More on the dud-jamming gear Defence wants to buy
-ADF cost per flying hour
-I will wipe out bullying vows new Defence chief (Houston 2005)
-Vacancy
-Put Vol 2 Report of DLA Piper Review into the light of day
-Rory and Jim
-Parasitism as an Abstraction for Organizational Dysfunctions
-Hobart-class "Air Warfare Destroyer" to be fielded with obsolete radar guidance technology
-The Decay Of Critical Military Thinking And Writing-With Particular Reference To The RAAF
-Newspaper guy gets it right about sub project.... big time
-The great M-1 tank myth
-*UPDATE* Fear and loathing in Canberra - Audit released on MRH-90 helicopter project 
-RAN bullies contractor over Collins sub replacement
-2014-15 ADF budget shocker - Star-ranks
-Air Warfare Destroyer -- Billions, not millions over budget
-Australia's M-1 tanks are... a downgrade compared to what it had
-Weak links put on rubber-stamp Defence panel
-Stop the nonsense (Collins-class submarine replacement)