Is a longer story, and a sort of 'insider joke' (even if I'm no insidier there) - related to the…

Is a longer story, and a sort of 'insider joke' (even if I'm no insidier there) - related to the widespread incompetence and at least indirect corruption within the Pentagon, which are going so far that there is a systematic prevention of reforms, and the US armed forces are regularly buying obsolete yet overpriced equipment.