How can the RAAF leadership and the Department of Defence get it so wrong when it is their job to plan and manage Australias air power?
The Australian Defence Organisation (ADO) has suffered an unprecedented loss of talented personnel over the last decade. This is partly the result of poorly managed outsourcing, indiscriminate downsizing, the migration of skilled capabilities following the outsourced work into the private sector, the forced early retirement of much of a generation of exceptionally talented air force senior officers and airmen, but also the result of the stifling bureaucratic culture within the Russell Offices apparatus in Canberra. As a result, the pool of talent within the Defence planning and management system is very shallow, and what talent is available is overcommitted, and often crippled by internal politics and institutionalised groupthink.
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