Word: bureaucratice
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In the decades after their successful revolutions, both communist giants built massive ground forces equipped with heavy tanks and artillery. Since the 1970s, their military leaders have also given lip service to the need for lighter, faster forces and high-tech weapons. Partly out of bureaucratic inertia and largely because...
Lewison Lee Lem, a Harvard admissions officer, calls this parental attitude "the Beida syndrome." Beida, which refers to Peking University in Mandarin, is shorthand for the push in Asian countries to be accepted at the top national institution, a tradition that stems from the Confucian emphasis on bureaucratic status via...
In the final days of the gulf war, General Norman Schwarzkopf had to fend off sniper fire from an unexpected front: defense intelligence analysts based in Washington. Both the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency thought Schwarzkopf's bomb-damage assessments in the final stage of the air campaign were...
Even more than military victories, defeats teach important lessons. After its long and bitter experience in Vietnam, the U.S. had a lot of them to learn. American commanders had too often proved unimaginative and bureaucratic, their troops uninspired and all too frequently undisciplined. After the fall of Saigon, still more...
You take a step forward and take a step back. We are concerned because eventually the American people will pay that. It's just a stamp tax. And when we raise postage rates to accommodate that, people say, "Oh, this idiotic, inefficient, unfeeling, bureaucratic Postal Service!" We can't go...