Word: inertia
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...Sample attack on the Army by the Mirror's "Cassandra": "At the top you have the military aristocracy of the Guards' regiments with a mentality not very foreign to that of Potsdam. In the center you have a second-class snobocracy and behind it all the cloying inertia of the Civil Service bogged down by regulations from which they cannot extricate themselves...
...catch, in the form of several ignored but potent factors. First, we ignored the possibilities of a Japanese East Indies or a German Empire. Second, we ignored that Axis technological methods have left us behind in many fields. The third, and most correctible factor is that, through mere inertia in American industry, a crucial proportion of our "resources" are going to waste...
...alcohol, also a solvent without which the chemical industry is helpless. We could ferment it from wheat, barley, or rye, although, through sheer inertia, we stick to molasses, although Germany has been fermenting potatoes for two decades. And only the Axis has bothered to distill it from coal or wood...
...interests. For the past two years he's cozily slumbered in the belief that an all-out productive schedule was not necessary, and today he still favors business as usual, though the lists of American soldiers who have died as a result of this disastrous policy are growing. Such inertia and complacency in so powerful a man can only be interpreted as a breach of public faith to a nation fighting to defend itself...
This inability to realize the tremendous dangers to the country has developed a dangerous inertia which must be over-come immediately...