Even pro-base analysts describe Pentagon construction as an unbounded bureaucratic machine

Evidence

“You could argue,” Luttwak told me, “that instead of new bases you could consolidate” at some of the other bases being vacated. But MilCon for the Pentagon, he continued, is “a bureaucratic machine needing to be stopped by someone in Congress. To say, ‘That’s it … We don’t want to spend money on bases. Goodbye!’” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 816

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes public-choice and bureaucratic-inertia explanations of runaway military spending.