Multimillion-pound push to transform 'broken' UK military is a 'fiasco'
A multimillion-pound push by the defence secretary to transform how the UK rearms and fights is a "fiasco", with too much focus on changing structures instead of preparing for war, according to interviews and conversations with a dozen defence sources.
Time has even been spent inside the Ministry of Defence (MoD) quibbling over the name of a new organisation charged with procuring billions of pounds worth of weapons - despite war gripping both the Middle East and Ukraine, and Donald Trump mocking British military weakness.
Two sources said some people would like to rename the newly established National Armaments Director Group, or NAD Group, as the Royal Armaments Directorate.
One of the sources claimed this was in part because the abbreviation "NAD" also means testicle - an unfortunate source of amusement. The other source said it was because the word "royal" would engender a greater sense of pride.
Sounds serious. If they can't agree on a name then the lanyards won't be ready for the first round of meetings.
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The large organisation I once worked for *believed* in the power of reorganisation. "If only we were organised differently the 'work' would flow much more smoothly".
The consequence was that minions continued to do work they had always done, but the names of the bosses and the 'org charts' changed. And the work continued much as before apart from a brief hiatus while everybody tried to find out their new place.
So, in my view, reorganisations without a compelling business logic are just 'theatre'.
DJ - that was my experience too, although gradual increases in centralisation tended to make the ethos of the organisation more political and less practical.
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