House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry's (R-TX) effort to cut Pentagon bureaucracy was met with bipartisan opposition last night, despite paring back his initial proposal , which would have eliminated seven non-military management agencies in the so-called "Fourth Estate." "We are partly responsible for the sclerosis at the Department of Defense," he told the committee during a marathon mark-up session of the fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill. "We need to rectify our past mistakes." To that end, Thornberry...
