The Pentagon’s acquisition process is broken, and the nation may be running out of time to fix it.

Former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) recently warned that the United States “has two years to prevent World War III” with China. Gallagher noted that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, will confront “a deteriorating balance of power in the Indo-Pacific.” To ensure peace, Hegseth and his team must “go to war on day one — not with China, Russia or Iran but with the Pentagon bureaucracy.”

Gallagher hit the nail on the head. There is no doubt that the Department of Defense remains plagued by waste. As Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the two leaders of the recently announced semi-official Department of Government Efficiency, have pointed out, “The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit.” No successful business can operate in such a manner, and no nation that refuses to........

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