Having worked at the Pentagon as a contractor, after my Army retirement (yes, I successfully avoided it while in uniform), I am confident that 75% of all the denizens or that place could be fired with no degradation in effectiveness. And 75% of the contacts as well. The only caveat: Congressional offices would also need a vigorous, mandatory slashing, as they are part of the same useless bureaucracy infecting Washington and bogging down each other with endless meetings and inquiries needing scribes to obfuscate and delay the answers.
Having worked at the Pentagon as a contractor, after my Army retirement (yes, I successfully avoided it while in uniform), I am confident that 75% of all the denizens or that place could be fired with no degradation in effectiveness. And 75% of the contacts as well. The only caveat: Congressional offices would also need a vigorous, mandatory slashing, as they are part of the same useless bureaucracy infecting Washington and bogging down each other with endless meetings and inquiries needing scribes to obfuscate and delay the answers.