On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:01:47 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"The Strategy of Technology" is on line he
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/slowchange/Strat.html

Excellent. Mandatory for war colleges, etc. Must be good.
I love his Iron Law of Bureaucracy restated.
"...in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of
people: those who work to further the actual goals of the
organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples
in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach
children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher
including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases,
the second type of person will always gain control of the
organization, and will always write the rules under which the
organization functions."

I think it's more true today than when he wrote it. sigh

--
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you
have earned, but it is not greed to want take someone else's money.
--Thomas Sowell