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AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTILTING AT WINDMILLS - Department of Defense's excess employees - Brief article

These excess bureaucrats are the subject of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary for policy at the Department of Defense during Obama's first term. One example she gives is that over the past decade in the Pentagon, defense agencies, and defense headquarters staff, "the number of DOD civilians increased by more than 100,000, to roughly 778,000 in 2010."

Flournoy, who also served at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration, says that the 600 people working in policy in the '90 s had, by the time she returned, "grown to nearly 1,000."

One method she suggests for eliminating the excess employees is "de-layering."...

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