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Originally Posted by YOWetal
How many people do you think should administer a $25 Billion organization ?
Many of the HQ headcount are operational as well. Canadians buy the “we have no military” silliness but our low spending is only in proportion to our large economy. We are still top 15-20 in the world and our defence department still dwarfs most other government functions.
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I know the situation in the military quite well, it was the focus of my degree and I have served 10 years in the CAF. There is so much admin bloat it hurts more than it helps. Bearing in mind most of the administrators are required to navigate the absolutely Byzantine system we've leashed our armed forces with, so I don't actually blame them, I blame the government for allowing the inefficiencies to balloon. You could probably cut NDHQ in half and see no detriment to the troops.
There's a lot of NCMs and officers up to Maj kicking around NDHQ making coffee for staff officers and their civvie equivalents that would be much more useful posted to the various units in their services.
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