Making the Pentagon More Efficient

By Raphael Benaroya

Raphael Benaroya is the Managing Director of Biltmore Capital Management and Vice Chair of Business Executives for National Security.

It’s been 15 years since the nonpartisan, nonprofit Business Executives for National Security (BENS) issued its first Tail-to-Tooth Commission call to action, a landmark report designed to suggest business-like ways to streamline and improve the Department of Defense’s (DoD) overhead and infrastructure (the tail) to free up resources to put into military force structure (the tooth). Today, its recommendations still resonate:

– resist the temptation to launch yet another lengthy study

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