"As you have it, a big portion of the Pentagon bureaucracy does nothing but second-guess the contractors, and that has to be rethought now."

Officials were discussing how to incorporate its missions that had not raised opposition elsewhere in the Pentagon bureaucracy.

He has avoided fights with the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy.

"Do you really think that an officer with 30 years' service could be coerced by the Pentagon bureaucracy to sign something he didn't want to sign?"

Sandecker might be more successful, but even he would have to deal with the Pentagon bureaucracy, and there was simply no time.

He is loud, brash and confrontational and has set out to shake up the Pentagon bureaucracy.

Republicans are divided over whether to increase military spending at the expense of domestic programs or wring inefficiencies from the Pentagon bureaucracy.

Since then, the recommendation has languished in the Pentagon bureaucracy.

The work helps the Pentagon bureaucracy discern good from bad, right from wrong.

The adversary is close to home, he concluded: "It's the Pentagon bureaucracy."

"As you have it, a big portion of the Pentagon bureaucracy does nothing but second-guess the contractors, and that has to be rethought now."

Officials were discussing how to incorporate its missions that had not raised opposition elsewhere in the Pentagon bureaucracy.

He has avoided fights with the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy.

"Do you really think that an officer with 30 years' service could be coerced by the Pentagon bureaucracy to sign something he didn't want to sign?"

Sandecker might be more successful, but even he would have to deal with the Pentagon bureaucracy, and there was simply no time.

He is loud, brash and confrontational and has set out to shake up the Pentagon bureaucracy.

Republicans are divided over whether to increase military spending at the expense of domestic programs or wring inefficiencies from the Pentagon bureaucracy.

Since then, the recommendation has languished in the Pentagon bureaucracy.

The work helps the Pentagon bureaucracy discern good from bad, right from wrong.

The adversary is close to home, he concluded: "It's the Pentagon bureaucracy."