“Let’s face it, government bureaucrats are not that bright.”
LOL,the understatement of the millennia!
I'm not sure if they aren't that bright or whether it's that their only goal is to entrench and enhance their power. They have no motivation to solve the problems their tasked to solve - their goal is to increase to problem so they can ask for more funding and power to supposedly combat it. This is why the top levels of the military will always be for perpetual war and saber rattling.