Lastly, he called for eliminating acquisition policies that put all the risk on the private sector. These priorities are utter nonsense. If executed, they would tighten the grip of the Death Spiral. Let me explain. Firstly, the idea of a stable environment is nutty.
Dead matter is stable, living matter is unstable.
Dinosaurs died because they could not cope with an unstable environment. Stability of budgets is the refuge of the central planner, because removing uncertainty makes planning trivial. Even worse, the false god of stability tempts the unimaginative mind into thinking he can organize the world from the top down by freezing nature's dynamics and fitting the world to his formulaic needs and ambitions. But what makes this proposal truly absurd is the fact that the prospect for instability is greater now than ever before, in part, because central planners squandered the window of opportunity handed to them by the end of the Cold War. If Pentagon planners were truly interested in stability, they would not have planted the seeds of a domestic political war that will pit the aged and infirm against the special interests of the military industrial congressional complex.