Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping, Part 3

Scot J. Paltrow, Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping. Reuters, 23 December 2013. “Part 3, Broken Fixes: Why the Pentagon’s many campaigns to clean up its accounts are failing…. Time and again, programs to modernize Defense Department record-keeping have fallen prey to bureaucratic rivalry, resistance to change and a lack of consequences for failure.”  (Part 1 of this three-part series was published on 2 July 2013, and Part 2 was published on 18 November 2013.)

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