I‘ve long felt that–after several decades of maintaining a peacetime military–Pentagon bureaucracy has become as great of a threat to our Armed Forces as terrorists or insurgents. Looking for a related reference, I stumbled upon a section of Robert Kaplan’s Imperial Grunts that I think most succinctly illustrates the inherent harm in sustaining bloated headquarters and command staffs. Speaking on the 5th Special Forces Group and their amazing successes in Afghanistan, Kaplan writes: