Office Life at the Pentagon Is Disconcertingly Retrograde
Posted on AllSides August 20th, 2020
From The Center
OPINION
THERE ARE NO laptops at meetings in the Pentagon. There are no whiteboards, either. No connectivity, and almost no diversity. I love the Navy and Marine Corps, but as a civilian executive, this 1950s environment is what exasperated me most about working there. These problems damage the speed and quality of our military planning and decisionmaking. If we don’t correct them soon, we will jeopardize our national security.
Take connectivity. Even though my office was in the E-Ring, the cynosure of American military power, I had no Wi-Fi access. To...
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