WEEKLY BASKET: Chuck the Waste

TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON CAUSE–When a new leader takes the helm at an agency as big as the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), it\’s common for recommendations to start pouring in from all quarters. Seemingly everyone and their uncle has an opinion on what challenges the new chief should tackle first. But not in recent memory has a string of previous deputy chiefs asked the new leader to do a total overhaul of our national security strategy—while acknowledging there is a limit to what we can pay.