James Joyner at Outside the Beltway ("an online journal of politics and foreign affairs analysis") explains how you sometimes get to the right answer in spite of yourself.
Money quote(s):
"Congress often winds up getting it right on weapons systems that the Pentagon opposed. The military bureaucracy naturally wants to prioritize both the wars it’s currently fighting and those it would prefer to fight."
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"Congress, meanwhile, has an incentive to simply buy the best equipment they can. As a result, they frequently wind up buying the right toys, even if for the wrong reasons."
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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